The Sun.
London, England, 1838-05-15 00:00:00

agitating the question, because we are convinced that there
is not, in the whole circle of politics, a question to which
SANCHO'S notorious, but offensive proverb, is so applicable,
as the question of now paying a Priesthood largely to teach
religion by verbal instruction once a week.

We understand that the Tories will probably be beate
by a majority of at least fourteen.

e think Lord Jot's; RUSSELL must now be convinced
of the inexpediency of the system of policy which he un-
fortunately adopted at the commencement of this Session.
Possibly misled by some observations of the Duke of WEL-
LINGTON last year with regard to the points in dispute
between the two parties, eand possibly also from a leaning
to what is tailed Conservatism, he has pursued a course
rather calculated to conciliate his enemies than to encourage
or support his friends. It has been a sort of half Whig—
half Tory policy, and it has consequently produced the re-
sults which invariably follow all half measures. His speech
on the Ballot and the Borough Constituency was calculated
to please the Tories ; so was his policy towards Canada and
towards the Negro Apprentices; and so were the resolutions
which he propounded some weeks ago for the settlement of
the Irish Tithe Question—and what has been the result ?
The Tories joined with Sir WILLIAM MOLESWORTH
in order to damage the Ministry by denouncing their
Colonial policy, and but two days before these con-
ciliatory resolutions were to be brought under the
notice of the House, they mustered in awful array at
Merchant Tailors' Hall, and had for their watch-words,
" Success on Monday,"--:" No Surrender." The Tories
are as hostile as ever, and a great deal more daring, be-
cause they know, that in proportion as Ministers yiold to
their suggestions, or adopt a line of policy in any way
coinciding with their own, they to the same ex-
tent alienate their friends and weaken their power.
This ruinous system has now been sufficiently tried. One
concession only emboldens their opponents to demand an-
other, and were even the last concession made, they would
find that in place of gaining favour they only expose them-
selves to ridicule and to renewed attacks. 111-advised,
however, as they have been, their conciliatory policy
may not be without good effects, if they know to im-
prove the present opportunity, and make a determined
stand against the detestable system of Government which
the Tories would perpetuate in Ireland. After the con-
tempt with which Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S advances have
been treated, he would have the sympathy of all dispas-
sionate men, were he to act with the spirit which
animated him in the cause of Parliamentary Reform.
He brought in a sweeping measure—no half and half
resolutions like those proposed for settling Irish tithes ;
and because it was a sweeping measure the country
joined cordially in the cause, and finally carried it. In
Ireland a much greater nuisance than rotten boroughs still
exists. The Irish Church is an anomaly unequalled in the
history of the world. A large establishment of clergy,
mostly without hearers, is kept up to increase (as they say)
the number of Protestants—but in reality to provide in-
comes for men of a certain party ; and not one penny is
to be set aside for the religious and moral instruc-
tion of the great body of the people. While such
a system endures, the people of Ireland must be discon.
tented, and England must keep up troops and a large con-
stabulary force to prevent them from rising up against an
abomination which degrades and oppresses them. With
the Court in their favour, with the majority in the House
of Commons, and the support of the Irish nation, Ministers,
would they only act with vigour, might soon bring the
House of Lords to reason.

We have great pleasure in directing the attention of our
readers to the vote of thanks of the Anti-Slavery
Society to Sir ROBERT INGLIS, for the Honoura-
ble Baronet's motion in the House of Commons for the
more effectual suppression of the Foreign Slave Trade,
which will be found in our advertizing columns. No tri-
bute of respect from so meritorious a body was ever better
earned. The Hon. Member for the University of Oxford,
in bringing the question of the Slave trade before Parliament,
rose above the petty warfare of faction, and exacted the
thanks of his political opponents by the Christian-like
spirit in which he denounced its horrors. It is true that no
moral courage was requisite for such a task, as Sir Ito-
BERT must have known that the Government would in-
stantly adopt his motion for an address to her MAJESTY ;
but the manner in which he brought it before Parliament
justly claims the thanks of every friend of the coloured
race. We forget the Toryism of Members of Parliament,
when we see them thus prefer the social and moral
welfare of the human race to the selfish interests of fac-
tion.

There are some men in whom the passion for distinction
is so strong that it must be gratified at all hazards. As this
propensity is always found in the greatest excess in persons
of the weakest intellect, we are furnished, at once, with a
key for the solution of certain problems in the conduct of
Lord STANHOPE, Lord LONDONDERRY, and that lackbrain
Sir FRANCIS BURDETT. We beg pardon of the two
Noble Lords for mentioning them at the same time with
one with whose name so many discreditable associations
are connected. They are simply fools—he is a fool,
and " something more." Though their love of distinction
has often led them into situations where they have made
themselves ridiculous, it has not obliterated the moral sense
by which right is distinguished from wrong. In " Old
Glory" this obliteration has been accomplished. He has
now conquered all the vulgar prejudices which act as re-
straints on the great bulk of mankind, and stands forth in
his seventy-second year the most perfect specimen of an
apostate that the world has ever seen.

But to return to Lord STANHOPE. This Noble Lord,
it will be seen by our Parliamentary report, last night
supplied the second branch of the Legislature with a sub-
ject of merriment in lieu of Lord LONDONDERRY, who, we
suppose, wes presiding over a Radical meeting about
the Coronation. The Poor-law grievances are at pre-
sent the Earl of STANHOPE'S hobby. It would ap-
pear from the proceedings in the House, that his
Lordship is a pretty hard rider, and, like other per-
sons of that description, not exempt from accidents.
Indeed, his whole equestrian experience may be said to be
nothing but an uninterrupted series of falls, which, strange
to say, instead of producing caution, lead to still more adven-
turous exploits. In his unreasoning hostility to the new Poor-
law, Lord STANHOPE is blind to every object that stands
in his way. He cannot even see, when he presents a peti-
tion against it, all the signatures to which are by one hand
either that some malicious wag has taken advantage of his
infirmity, and played off a trick upon him, or that
an enemy to the Poor-law has practised a fraud, and
committed a breach of privilege towards the House of
Lords, showing at the same time the desperate shifts to
which the opponents of that greatest of legislative mea-
sures in modern 'times are obliged to resort, in order to
excite a clamour against it. The petition, as a matter of
course, was kicked out of the House, and Lord STAN-
HopX rebuked for his remissness in presenting it.

There is very little news of any interest in the Paris Pa-
pers of Sunday. A rumour prevails that the Ministers
tendered their resignations immediately after their signal
defeat on the Railway question, but the KING refused to
to accept them. His MAJESTY is reported to have com-
forted them with the assurance, that if they could weather
the storm for six weeks longer, he would take care to let
them have six months repose, in the course of which they
might form many schemes which would have the effect of
thinning the ranks of the Opposition.
On Saturday a deputation of the linendrapers, accompa-
nied by 40 members of the Chamber of Deputies, had an in-
terview with the President of the Council, for the purpose of
praying the Government not to make any reduction on the
import duty on linen and linen-yarn, as such a reduction
would enable British manufacturers to compete with the
Frenchin their own market. The Ministers promised
that the
lic interests of the deputation Would receive the ne-
cessary protection.

We have received South American journals to the 2sth
of February, inclusive. The blockade of the city of Bahia
was eluded by a Danish vessel laden with flour, to the
great rel►ef of the starving inhabitants. The civil war was
daily disgraced by the most savage atrocities,

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AN OPPONENT FOR DR. CHALMERS.—The
appearance of the Rev. Doctor in our capital as the defender of the
Union between Church and State, 43 roused up; as might naturally
have been e4peatetl, Pf.afSoMl tO 04144. that union. Eut when was zeal
discreet? The Rev. ?dr. Hinton, who, we are told, is a clever man, it
one of those who have undertaken this task. He proposes to give a pours@
rtigeleut;rwoltriihVriave lauded the POI
of three lectures to hi; apniiregatißll Pfl49yopshiru.square chapel, in reply
3iThe citieltion Of Church Establishment, of no Church
s now fairly afloat, and will not return again into port
the apiSgrigp of laymen, Meddling divines and
itrEst otiglicaftrbi .1:::1C:thohi4:a,
ect on th°.`!:. of emir°.
if Church rAtabiishmenia should be wrecked, they may thank
versy, an
their own too FraspinF cuidditz, r •—'