The Sun.
London, England, 1838-06-13 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDA V, JUNE 13, 1838.

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LONDON:
WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 13, 1338

The Times, of all the Journals in this wide empire, has
suddenly found out this morning that the Parliament is too
pure, too righteous to tolerate the petty iniquity, on its
chewing, of a fraudulent franchise for the municipal corpo•
rations for Ireland. Would to God that we could believe
in its righteousness, fur then we should daily have the
pleasing task of inculcating confidence in its decisions. But
what has it done as to the franchise in England ? Decreed
that it shall belong to certain freeholders, copyholders, and
householders ; and at the same time it daily declares by its
acts and its deliberations when appealed to, that the fran-
chise shall be exercised by certain landlords and money-
lords, whom it aids by means of that very franchise, in op-
pressing the men whom its decrees have made dependent
on the land and money lords. A notable example of this
very iniquity, not practised in Ireland but in England,
where, in fact, similar instances are daily brought
to light, was last night submitted to the notice
of the House of Commons, which disdained to take
the least notice of the affair. The Tories called
it paltry. Why? Because in fact, the enormity is
of such daily occurrence, and is so generally practised by
men of all parties belonging to the class of landlords, that
it has in their eyes lost all its blackness. They think they
have a right to dispose of the votes of their tenants, just as
the planters think they have a right to dispose of the bodies
and souls of the negroes. It is a moral fraud on a great
scale, a gigantic iniquity, pervading the whole body of the
electors and land-owners, and like other great frauds and
gigantic iniquities—such as the tithe tax, levied under the
pretence of promoting the love and knowledge of God, and
such as a national war waged touching the honour of a
Crown—is not only tolerated but lauded and ordained by
the Parliament.
It is amusing to hear the Times, which has lately been
so furious against Parliament on the score of the Rox-
burgh Election Committee, and Controverted Elec-
tions in general, and was fornrsrly so vigorous on the
subject of the Corn Laws, implying in any manner
to suit its own present purposes, that the Parliament
has a horror of iniquity. For our parts, when we know
that the Parliament, and notably that section of it which
the Times now attempts to write into public admiration,
has for years, and even centuries, under the iafluenceof the
Oxford Jesuits, and the prejudiced convictions of the
members in favour of their own narrow, exclusive and petty
sect of Christians, inflicted grievous penalties and misery on
large masses of the people, and continues from the same
selfish and unenlightened motives to inflict them, we arc
ready to suppose that there is no kind of iniquity, consistent
with its own prejudices and interests, Parliament will not
tolerate. It is bound to treat eqtially all the subjects of
her MAJESTY, and has nothing to do with the affairs of
another world. It is not only an iniquity, therefore, in the
Parliament to assign a superiority to any sect of Christians
—it is an absurdity. In this case it adopts a sorry and a
disgusting limitation to the great doctrines of universal
love and kindness, which are the basis of Christianity, and
under the influence of an arrogant and stupid bigotry, into-
lerant of every mode of thought and worship but its own,
it has committed, and commits, the enormity of grievously
insulting and grievously injuring many millions of those
.whom it asks in return to respect and obey it. When it
has thus avowed itself the enemy of large masses of the
people, decreeing eternal hostility to their Christianity, the
Times finds out, that a reason for continuing:its oppression is
the existence in Ireland of a " spiritual power, the sworn
enemy of Church and State." The Parliament commits
one iniquity, and then is obliged to commit another to
'keep in subjection the party it injures, just as a vile
burglar sometimes finds its necessary to add arson or
murder to robbery, in order to make sure of his plunder.
But what can or will the Times say to the Corn-laws ?
• Will it tell us, with the excellent illustrations of the effects
of those laws which it continually supplies by its comparisons
of prices between wheat here and in the neighbouring
i countries, which only this shy informs us that wheat is
it!'7B. t s per cent, dearer in England than in France—will it,
',with this proof of the Parliament making the people ply
.nearly twice as much for their bread as is necess ire, say that it
'has the smallest friction of intolerance for any iniquity
t.vlitch Seems to serve its own purpose ? It stints the food
of the people to put money into the pockets of those
M
vho are smbers of Parliament. It starves some of ti:e
seople to e:irich the landowners. It would he a monstrous
kiquity if the Parliament were to put a tax on corn to en-
ich one c!ass of the people, who had no influence over.
eking the law ; but all words are feeble to describe the
:quits. of those law-makers who decree such a law to
nrish thems Ives. Amongst these law-makers, too, and
who dente great advantage from stinting the people in
bread, which they are most willing honestly to earn by the
sweat of their brow are not a few Bishops of the united
and twin Churches of England and Ireland. Not
tolerate iniquity, ' indeed ! If the Times will show
us above three greater iniquities in the whole circle
of man's offences—heavy and numerous though they
be—than this of Christian Bishops, and Christian Legisla-
tors, making laws, starving the people who confide in them,
in order to add to their own wealth, we will henceforth
speak of it as the very oracle of the world whose voice no
man ought to gainsay. Not tolerate iniquity indeed !
What injudicious hand guided the pen to write the sentence
while its own pages daily bear proofs that the Church of
Ireland, and the Corn Laws, are upheld by infantry and
yeomanry, under the command of the Parliament, and give
the lie to its assertions ?

A Select Committee has just been appointed by the
House of Lords to take into consideration the expediency
of extending the system of summary conviction. The
hardships and bad effects of the present system have often
been pointed out and discussed in the House of Commons ;
but no material change has taken place, owing to a reluc-
tance on the part of the Legislature to increase the power
of Magistrates. This jealousy is no doubt well founded,
but it may be carried to too great an extent, and has
arisen in a great measure from the appointment
of men, such as many of the Metropolitan Magistrates were,
totally unfit to perform the duties of Magistrates. The
present system, in fact, encourages crime. It is with the
greatest difficulty that a person can be brought forward to
prosecute boys for a petty theft, and many prefer taking
the remedy into their own hands, and inflicting summary
punishment according to Lynch law, to the annoyance and
loss of time caused by the present mode of trial. The
consequence is, that many offenders escape, and many suf-
fer more imprisonment before trial than would be assigned
to them by the Judge on conviction. Grand Juries have
repeatedly called the attention of Judges to this mockery
of justice, and to the absurdity of wasting their time in
listening to Pvidenoe qn patty charges, which could be
muct bettcr os disnad Pf two glistfaO W
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The Paris Journals of Monday have all been received.
Several of the opposition prints express, in the strongest
terms, their disapprobation of the Report of the Chamber
of Peers on the Five per Cents. Bill. They maintain that
as the question was purely financial, it was the duty of the
Committee to allow a Bill, which had been carried by a
large majority of the representative body to undergo the
careful and respectful revision of the Upper Chamber.
They further contend that as the Government had been
so signally defeated upon so important a measure, the
Ministers would have better consulted the dictates of duty
and personal serf-respect by resigning, than by depending
upon a non-representative branch of the legislature for a
temporary protraction of their tenure of office.
We likewise find in these Journals some curious obser-
vations respecting the conduct which, according to them,
it behoves England to pursue in the event of France
coming to an open ruptnre with the Bey of Turas or the
Porte, or most likely with both. One extract from the
Courrier Francais will illustrate the style of reasoning and
of argument adopted by all :-
7 Lord Palmerston knows perfectly well that France is greatly em-
barrassed respecting her new acquisition of Constantine, and that she in
tle!;ree seeks to achieve the conquest of Tunis. His Lordship also,
knows that France has every reason for demanding satisfaction at thel
hands of the Bay of Tunis, and also for preventing the asserr Wage of al
large Turkish force upon the frontiers of our African possessions,i
Under these circumstances, and with his knowledge of the facts, wouldl
it not be a mean and unworthy policy to pick a quarrel with France at,t
the very moment when the united efforts of both kingdoms are required
in order to defeat the Machiavelian combinations which are at this moment exhibiting themselves in the East ?"
Wiii:e admitting the importance of preserving the most
friendly relations with France, as a guarantee for the peace
and progressi..e liberalization of Western Europe, we must
protest against the unlimited right claimed by France of
n.Ctirtg according to the dictates of her own caprices in
Africa. To check the dangerous power of Russia in the
East, it is of the last importance that we should strengthen
rather than permit France to weaken the hands of the
Porte. If our Parisian Contemporary be really sincere in
his wish to defeat the Machiavelian oriental policy of the
Ciatt—if he really dread danger to the liberties and the
pe.tee of Europe front the triumph of that policy, he fur-
nishes us with the strongest argument for preventing
the humiliation of the Porte in the capital of a
vassal by a Power which has repeatedly professed the
co-operation of MAIIMOUD to be necessary to the nullifi•
cation of the designs of the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh.
We have already sufficiently proved that we are above en-
tertaining any mean jealousy of the triumph of the French
arms, by the cordiality with which we congratulated the
past success of France in Africa ; but it would be preposte-
rous to expect us to look indifferently or patiently on while
France assumes the power of regulating the intercourse of
the Porte with a vassal of the Ottoman Empire, with
whom she is not actually at war. France complains of in-i
relults. Is the refusal to sell horses an insult
[which a great nation is called upon by the law
Fiaf honour or of nations to resent by a blockade ?
France wanted to purchase fifty- of the BET'S horses ; that
Prince returned for answer that he had not horses enough
to mount his own cavalry, and instantly a cry is raised about
an indignity offered to the majesty of the CITIZEN KING.
we are quite aware of the prior insult offered by the
servants of the Bay to the French Consul, but we are
likewise aware that reparation was offered and ac-
cepted, and that France expressed herself satisfied with
the result. This may be denied, but the best proof
of its correctness is the return of the French Consul
to Tunis, and especially in the late offer to purchase
horses from the BEY. We have, therefore, in conclusion,
only to observe, that should Admiral GALLO'S, in execu-
tion of the orders which he is reported to have received
from the Minister of Marine, bombard the Turkish fleet on
its attempting to open a communication between the Sur,
TAN and his vassal the BEY, it will become the imperative
duty of England to throw her weight into the settle occu-
pied by the Porte, England cannot contemplate the Bey
of TUNIS awaiting the same fate as the lley of ALGIERS
and the Bey of CoNsTANTINE. To do so, would prove
how very imperfectly she was acquainted with all the
bearings of the Oriental questions,
A letter from Tunis of the 19th ult. states that a
Turkiah.bris had landqd PAcHtico, OsmA;sl );3EY, an ofAcer

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has been proposed by tlte Swig y,
shof. '.ll Pird4 at Antwerp meeting at the Stutter.
are to be conveyed to London, and let offfrom thence
0 the lam of July. All the fanciers of Bel4iun, are to tog gliowect to
fiend birds.—French paper,
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