The Sun.
London, England, 1853-02-25 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 9_5, 1853.

SOUTH DEVON GREAT CONSOLS MINING
COMPANY.

The Committee beg to state they have this day COMPLETED
. the ALLOTMENT. In conseqven ce of the limited number of shares
at their disposal the Committee regret they have been unable to
comply with the requests of numerous highly respectable applicants ;
those who do not receive letters of allotment will, therefore, accept
this notice as an acknowledgment of their communication.—By
order of the lloard, G. ANGUS, Secrttary.
22, Mocrgate-stre t, Feb. 24, 1853.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
Under the Management of Mr. C. Kean.

THIS EVENING, FEB. 25,

Will be produced Shakapero's Tragedy of MACBETH (as acted
at Windsor Castle, by Royal command). Principal characters by
Mr. and Mrs. C. Kean.
To conclude with the new and original Grand Comic Christ-
mas Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN CHERRY AND FAIR
STAIR; or, The Green Bird, the Dancing Waters, and the
-inging Tree..

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. Farren.
THIS EVENING, FEB. 25,

Will he presented LIFE IN AUSTRALIA, FROM OUR OWN
CORRESPONDENT, supported by the entire strength of the Com-
pany.
After which, the TYROLESE SINGERS will give their National
Entertainment.
To be followed by the Farce of A DEED WITHOUT A NAME.
To conclude with CHAMBER PRACTICE.
Box-utlace open from Eleven till Five, under the superintendence
of Mr. E. Chatterton.,

HIGH WATER AT LOND,

ON BRIDGE.

Tam DAY --Morning 5 min. after 3 I Evening 22 min.aft. 3
To-Moscow—Morning 42 min. after 3 I Evening 0 miu.aft. 4

THE WEATHER.-SUN OPFICE, FEB. 25.

THERMOMETER, IN THB SHAM
35—highest since noon yesterday.
31—lowest this morning and during the night.
36—this day at noon.

• BAROMETER, 29'68.
WIND, N.—Fresh gale, and cloudy, with sunshine.
There was a heavy fall of snow, sleet, and rain, with squally
weather, during the night.

exit purpose—being, in fact, directed against co.-
': tain views put forward in a treatise found in the
I possession of one of the parties (FRA_Ncis TRESHAM)
engaged:in-the' Gunpowder P10t... It was because
it was supposed that the oath would be thereby
rendered more binding on the consciences of
certain Romph Catholics that it was inserted. What
they were to swear to was one point—the most
stringent manner of enforcing the test was another.
The Jew who could conscientiously declare that
the omission of these formalities would render the
substantial part of the oath more binding on his
conscience, was never intended to be included
within its operation. Its application was a
matter of mere accident, and should not
have been perMitted for a moment to in-
terfere with the true policy of the law. Jews
are ouf fellow-subjects, admittedto the jury-
box to decide •on queStions affecting the lives,
liberties, or properties of the parties concerned=
to act as Magistrates in the administration of ins-
tice—as High Sheriffs of counties. They pay
every tax—are subjected to every liability of a
citizen—and it is as unjust and inequitable to de-
prive them of any of the privileges of citizenship
as it is impolitic and illiberal. Let the boon,
then, no longer be withheld. Let the necessary re-
lief be promptly afforded, and let the hereditary
branch of the Legislature abstain from placing itself
in the invidionsposition of obstinately resisting that
which is imperatively demanded by the voice of
public opinion, and which has been repeatedly
sanctioned by decisive majorities in the Commons
House of Parliament.

There is hope for our o owes. There is no
longer a Minister at the head of the department
whose chief object appeared to be to slight and
despise their reasonable requests. The removal
of the " GREY" incubm enables them once more
tp breathe freely, and to make their voices heard in
the inmost recesses of Downing-street. The late and
the present Government exhibit a laudable emu-
lation in rendering justice to our Australian fellow-
subjects. The great curse of the country, the fer-
tile isoure-e of discontent and demoralisation, is to
be removed, except within narrow boundaries and
for a limited period. We confess that we should
have preferred that Western Australia should
also have been exempted from these baleful in-
fluences that were so loudly and so justly com-
plained of. But when Ministers show themselves
to be disposed to deal with the matter in a fair,
straightforward, and liberal spirit, we are
not inclined to embarrass their operations
by insisting on the immediate concession of
every demand, and the instant application
of a full measure of relief. We are willing to
accept of justice by instalments, provided the pay-
ments be not too long deferred.

• As Sir JoHN PAKINGTON last night declared,
the late Government had determined on measures
which their successors in office have very credit-
ably decided on carrying into execution. It is
not merely the cessation of criminal deportation, but
other much-required boons, that will be granted
to our colonial fellow-subjects ; and, amongst
others, the all-important right of self-government,
and the control of the funds arising from the sales
of waste lands and of gold-digging licences. Sir
JOHN PAKINGTON, although sneered at as a plain
country gentleman, a mere Chairman of Petty
Sessions, turned out to be a more efficient Minister
and far better disposed to render justice to the colo-
nists than any of his red-tapist predecessors. We
willingly render him the honour which he is so
eminently entitled to ; and we rejoice to find that
his noble successor is persevering in the course
on which he so• judiciously entered.
Under such circumstances we willingly grant

,inle to the Ministry for deliberation on the vitally

important subject of secondary punishments, be-
fore their decision is finally and irrevocably an-
nounced. It is quite clear that if the deportation
of criminals from their native land be continued
as a penalty, that none of our Australian territo-
ries will be made their place of destination. It
would, particularly since the gold discoveries,
be a_ farce_of .the mostr ridiculous character to
send the outcasts of society, those who have
been considered irreclaimable, to places where
they could give full scope to their evil passions,
and where they would have a fertile country and
a delightful climate—a land flowing with milk
and honey, and abounding in the precious metals,
as the rewards of their offences against society.
It would practically be offering a premium to
vice if we should send our convicts where our
innocent and well-disposed labourers would re-
joice to go. Hitherto we have looked rather
to our own convenience than to the welfare and
prosperity of the Colonies. We rejoice to find
that injudicious policy has been abandoned, and
that we are no longer persevering in a course that
must have greatly weakened, and ultimately dis-
severed, the bonds by which we are united to our
Antipodean dependencies.

We beg the attention of the Irish impracticables
to the views indicated by all the speakers at the
dinner, given on the 16th, to the Members of
Parliament holding Evangelical-Nonconformist

principles. Messrs. MOORE and LUCAS may learn
a valuable lesson from the sound good sense of
these highly respectable English Dissenters. They
certainly have no ground to look down upon the
examples we offer them, for they nearly all repre-
sent large constituencies, some of them large
enough to outnumber the electors of, perhaps,
the whole band who swear enmity to every Go-
vernment but one which adopts all their creed.
The fifteen Members present at the dinner repre-
sent a population of 2,052,000, equal to 136,000
each. Now, as was stated by the Chairman at
the dinner, these gentlemen hold, then, Dissenting
principles as religious convictions, quite as much
as Mr. LUCAS does. They were all of them advo-
cates of religious equality before the Irish clique
thought of such a thing. They hold, with the
Quakers, that State Churches are a religious
error, and not merely .a political mistake or in-
convenience. Many of them, with the Member
for Rochdale at their head, have long been united
in an association designed to compass, by argu-
ment and persuasion only, the abolition of all
connection between Church and State ; in fact, they
hold what are denominated generally the most
extreme views on this question. There can be no
question of their zealous attachment to their
opinions; they have met, subscribed, and pub-
lished for many years in support of them, and
they have never deviated from their one creed of
"no Government interference whatever with
religion." They have never asked for a penny of
Church property, nor have we any reason to think
they would
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schools because religion 'is taught in them.

Yet, how thoroughly English the combined
moderation firmness of their views. Mr. J.
CHEETHAM, who represents a constituency of up-
wards of 20,000, South Lancashire, and who was
returned without opposition, after enumerating
the measures for which the Nonconformist mem-
bers would Tote, especially an extension of the
Franchise, observed—" They would, however, be
happy to unite with all other liberal members of
every shade in carrying out such liberal measures
as were not contrary to their principles." Mr.
PETO followed in the same strain, and even Mr.
MIALL " advocated .prudence without cowardice."
" They would listen to all men who were earnestly
desirous to say something practical, and who were
consistent in their adherence to the principles they
professed." The Hon. and Rev. BAPTIST NOEL,
the author of a volume against the Union of
Church and State, and a seceder from the Church,
unlike some other seceders from their early faith,
" urged them to support every measure,
by whomsoever it might be introduced,
that was really calculated to promote the general
welfare of the country; if they did this, and main-
tained
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support of their their
con-
stituents." Every speaker, however, equally in-
sisted on their not compromising these principles.
They all agreed in the impropriety of any " ag-
gressive" measures in favour of them, but were of
one mind, that they were strenuously to resist any
encroachment upon them, such, for instance, as
fresh grants of Government money for the sup-
I port of religion. The Churchwarden Election

Bill of the Bishops of LONDON and SALISBURY
will, no doubt, be turned inside out by them, if
ever it reaches the House of Commons.

Now it is just this manly and sensible combi-
nation of firm support of' their known principles,
with a hearty readiness to co-operate in every
measure for the public good, let it come from what
quarter. it. may, that we commend to the notice of
Mr. LUCAS and his friends. We are confident
that the speeches at the Nonconformist dinner
have raised that body in the real judgment of all
Englishmen, their most decided opponents not
excepted. No Englishman asks of another to
decline advocating his known opinions when suit-
e/Me occasions offer, nay, he would rather despise
it as cowardice ; but, on the other band, to drag
them in on every occasion, to make them
the means of obstructing national and useful
measures, to imitate the Chartists, who forced
their five points upon anti-corn law meetings, such
factious tactics Englishmen never can relish. To
threaten opposition to any Cabinet—Tory, Whig,
or Coalition—unless it will swear by Crawfordian
Tenant Right, and Lucasian Religious Equality,
will be endured by no party, but will make
enemies of all. It will necessitate a much more
formidable coalition than that of Whigs and
Peelites ; a coalition of every man who wishes
to have an Imperial Government t all, against
the representatives of Rome and Irish bog-
trotters. No one can bo found now to defend
the Irish Church as it is. Statesmen, historians,
and religionists all denounce it as the greatest
ecclesiastical monstrosity of the age ; it is, how-
ever, perfectly certain that neither Cabinets nor
our Houses of Legislature, nor the English people
will be badgered into an emendation of it, by the
worrying attacks of avowed Ultra-Montanists. It
will, indeed, become a disgrace to any Cabinetwhat-
ever to seek to conciliate such men ; and they will
soon find that instead, as they flatter themselves,
of holding the balance between two great parties,
both these great parties will jump into one scale,
and make them kick the beam in the other, not
without danger to their heads of well-deserved
Hibernian contusions. We think it would be
much for the credit of Mr. MOORE and his
pretended 100 coadjutors in obstructiveness, if
they could say on their own behalf and that of
their constituencies what Mr. CHEETHAM and Mr.
PETO both asserted in very distinct terms at the
dinner ; what, indeed, we ourselves had pointed
out as being the case a few days ago, namely, that
as Mr. CHEETHAM stated, " they were not elected
because they were Dissenters, but because being
Dissenters their constituents saw in them qualifi-
cations, talents, and integrity, which induced
them to give them their confidence ;" or, as Mr.
PETO expressed it, " not because they were Non-
conformists, but their position in that respect did
not deter their constituencies from electing them
in consequence of their identification with all that
was connected with popular progress." Gentlemen
who combine with undeniable attachment to their
religious principles such perfect freedom from the
bigoted and fanatical, or rather, we should say,
factious devotion to them, exhibited by some Irish
Dissenters, must and will gain the respect, both
of electors and the House of Commons ; and the
pledged obstructives will soon find that thirty or
forty men of character will have far more influence
than one hundred Ishmaelitish Romanists. If our
Nonconformist friends would hearken to us, no
inducement should allure them to form any com-
bination with this band of universal disturbers
until the latter had first been bound over to some-
thing like honourable conduct. We should not
oven venture to drop such a remark, were they
not both in some important respects on the same
political footing.