The Sun.
London, England, 1838-08-01 00:00:00

while Lord BLOMPSELD keeps his 9361., we are, like Sir
ROBERT PEEL, unable to find any principle which has
guided the decision of the Committee.
Nothing seems to us more scandalous than to misappro-
priate a fund intended to relieve distress or reward pub-
lic exertion (which is well applied in the cases of Mrs.
MORTIMER and Lady POPHAM), to pamper luxury or nou-
rish pride. An honest and honourable man who, like Lord
BLOMFIELD, has a clear income, or like Mr. Cao-
KER, a munificent allowance for his birth and sta-
tion, would as much scorn to quarter himself on
such a fund as an independent artisan, in the receipt of
good wages, would scorn to go weekly to the parish board
and share in the allowance which is properly provided for
the widows, the orphans, the aged, the bed-ridden, and the
idiots of the parish. Much has within these few years
been said of the disgraceful conduct of some individuals,
who, being in the receipt of good wages, have nevertheless
sent their wives or sons to the parish for weekly relief.
Their conduct has a warrant in that of Mr. CROKER and
Mr. HOLMES ; and if the Poor-law Commissioners and
the Legislature have visited the pauper-workmen with
unmeasured and virtuous reprobation, what ought the
public to say of these Tory public servants ? One
now is, and one was, a Member of the Legislature,
and both belong to that party which has constantly
denied political power to the bulk of the people, on ac-
count of their want of honesty and independence. The
calumniators of mankind, the vilifiers of the poor, are to
be found among Tory pensioners. From their places in
Parliament, and on the judgment-seat, they snugly
and slily draw the public wealth into their own pouches,
they denounce the people as dishonest and unworthy of
confidence ; and think it decent to deny them the
political franchise, or even the poor liberty of drinking
their beer how and where they like. Out on the hypo-
crites, who fill high places, and palm themselves off on
the world as the purest of patriots, as the most disinterested
legislators, and the holiest of all created men.

We were glad to observe that Lord BROUGHAM
last night announced his intention of oppoiug in
the House of Peers the Irish Tithe Bill, to the
utmost. In doing so, the Noble Lord emphatically
declared, that the oldest Peer in that House might
live to see the total extinction of tithes in Ireland. We
object to the Bill in its present state, because it inflicts
a gross injustice on the people of England, to satisfy
the Tories, and pave the way for their return to office,
without the smallest chance of preserving a fraction of
the tithes for the public. Instead of this complicated and
mischievous piece of legislation, it would be infinitely bet-
ter at once to give up the tithes, allowing the landlords and
occupiers to share them, and to provide for the existing
ti s of priests by pensions on the Consolidated Fund.
If they do not get pensions now, the chances are that by
and by they will rt neither tithes nor pensions.

Since we wrote our few remarks yesterday on Lord
DURHAM'S conduct our attention has been attracted to the
opinions of the Mont:. eel Herald, the organ of the insult-
in!, arrogant Orange party in Canada—whose preroAcrous
claims and unjust assumptions were the chief causes of the
public discontent, and our opinion is confirmed by the
‘ehument manner in which that Journal—tires:rife-stirriog,
blood-thirsty Standard of Canada—condtmns Lord DUR-
HAM'S conduct. It condemns the Noble Lord, too, for
the very reasons why we praised him, namely, because the
banishment is intended only temporurily to remove the
political offenders from Canada, and by and by to pardon
them, if they deserve it, and desire to return. We were
doubtful yesterday wlither NELSON and his friends were
satisfied with Lord DURHAMS conduct, but the Montreal
Herald assures us that they are, and accept wi:h thankful-
re,s their temporary banishment. We have, therefore,
no loi:ger the smallest doubt as to the wisdom cf Lord
DURHAM'S proceedings, and be:ieve, that before half a
dozen years have p issed, the very men who are now most
eager to shed blood, will rejoice the most, that his Lord-
ship's despotism has prevented them from glottiog their le-
gal vengeance. If, too, these mea voluntarily neeept ba-
nish:l-telt as a means of safety to themselves, what becomes
of that contemptible oljc!ctiori of Lord ELLE:NBC/ROUGH'S,
that e...ery one of their cases required a long legal iovesti-
gation, before the Council could properly come to a deci-
sion ? This fact, and this view, then, supply an answer to
a multitude of quibbles as to Lord DURHAM'S conduct, and
should make individuals exercLe some forbearance towards
11;m in his present extraordinary and import:azA situation.
We rgree with a writer in the London and West-
minster Review in saying that, in Lord DURHAM'S
situation, boldness is prudence ; and his first step,
placing himself in a position independent of both parties,
was so well chosen that his best well-wishers could nst
have imagined a wiser commencement of his Government.
Intrusted with most extensive power by the whole Legisla-
ture, it is scarcely decorous in individual Members of Par- ,
Lament to hamper his discretion. At present let it be re-
membered that society does not tolerate cruel punishments
for even great crimes, and it will not bear that any suc-
cessful party should punish political opinion or political
conduct, of which that party disapproves, more severely than
murder, when a few years may make what it now condemns
the theme of general approbation.

It will be Jbserved that we say nothing of the legality of
Lord DURHAM'S proclamation, but believe it on the high
authority of Lord BROUGHAM, who so described it in the
House of Peers, to be illegal ; but we approve of it not-
withstanding, because we have learned from Lord
BROUGHAM himself, that what is legal is not what is just.
The law is become," he said on a memorable occasion,
" not a staff to the honest, but a two-edged sword
in the hands of the wicked." Perhaps Lord DURHAM, if
the men were to return from Bermuda, would have no
power, we trust that he has no inclination, to put
them to death, and this part of his Proclamation is
a mere trutuni fulazen ; but, perhaps, that appearance
and threat of cruelty was necessary to pacify the party
which finds itself dreadfully aggrieved by not having an
opportunity to glut its vengeance.

We beg the particular attention of our readers to an
article in another column on the infamous conduct of the
Highland and Island Destitution Committee, which we

have copied from a Morning Contemporary. The Times
has, in its usual unceremonious manner, torn aside the veil
which the Committee had thrown over their nefarious
proceedings, and has exposed to the public view as rank a
piece of jobbery as was ever hatched in the brain of the
most finished adept in such matters. In one respect this
job surpasses all others in blackness of character—it
adds the most barbarous cruelty to a flagrant
breach of a public trust. We now see, clearly
enough, the reason why the " Advance-nought" clique
—we borrow this happy epithet from the Times—had no
bowels of compassion for the sufferings of the poor Shet-
landers. An influential trader in hospitals, it now appears,
has found means to chain up the sympathy of a majority
of the Committee with the distresses of the remote in-

habitants of Thule, and to prevail upon them to
ease his purse of the burden which he had undertaken of
founding an hospital himself in the beautiful vale of Stratb-
peffer "To give an adequate expression of our asto-
nishment," exclaims the Times—and we heartily concur in
the exclamation—" at the cool effrontery which produced
the proposal, and the reprehensible inadvertency which ac-
quiesced in it, is wholly beyond our power. A more flagrant
violation of the original purpose for which the funds in
question were contributed we can hardly conceive. We
call upon the London Committee's constituents and sup-
porters, to strengthen the hands of the honest and over-
borne minority."

TLe Paris Papers of :',londay announce the termination,
without any further accidents, of the anniversary of the
Revoution of 18:30. The affair was altogether a mockery
of what it was intende.l to be ; and, to say the truth, the
sooner the citizens of Paris dispense with its celebration,
the better it will be both for themselves and the Govern-
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T Duchess ALEXANDER of WUATEMBURG, eldest
il.tughter of the ling of the FRENCH, gave birth to a tine
bov illorid2y. The confinement of the Duchess of
LEANS will take place scme time a',out the latter end
of August.

le report of an engagement hav'ng taken place off
Tani:, betwet n the Feneh ship-of-war Jena and some
Tur:Csla vesstlr, Pais on Monday;but it was not
tlliorAt to deserve any credit.
I'Ve have adticei fioni Madrid of the 9.3 d ult., but they
b no intn!Fgcr.ee of any interest. No accounts lead