The Sun.
London, England, 1831-10-31 00:00:00

that rich men cannot enter the kingdom of Heaven,
and that the yeomen of Oatnbridgeshire must have
read in it, the strict prohibition of all the dis-
honest practices to which the Reform Bill would
put an end, but which the Bishops wished to
continue, he never would have made it a charge
against Dr. Lamb, that he had departed from
the Gospel in censuring the vote of the Bishops.
How little the men of Captain Yorke's caste
know of the people of England ! The very
circumstances which endear the establishment to
Captain Yorke, anti men like him, render it un-
palatable to the people. The secularity of the
Church is all that Captain Yorke sees in it of
any value ; the people wish for Pastors to teach
them tile way that leadeth unto life, and whose
example may serve to add force to their doc-
trines, and not Baron-Bishops, intent only on
the acquisition of wealth by subserviency to
power. The man of the people turns with loathing
from the bloated pluralist, and exclaims with the
fervid author of the Corn Law Rhymes—
" Oh, for a Saint, like those who sought and found,
For conscience sake, sad homes beyond the main,
The Fathers of New England, who unbound,
In wild Columbia, Europe's double chain ;
The men whose dust cries—' Sparta, live again !'—
The slander'.l Calvinists of Charles's time
Fought, and they won it, Freedom's holy fight.
•
No servile doctrines, such as power approves,
They to the poor and broken-hearted taught ;
With truths that tyrants dread, and conscience loves,
They wing'd and barb's! the arrows of their thought;
Sin in high places was the mark they sought.
They said not, ' Man, be circumspect, and thrive !
Be mean, base, slavish, bloody, and prevail !'
Nor loth the Deity they worship'd drive
His four-in-hand, applaud a smutty tale,
Send Members to the House, and us to gaol;
With zeal they preach'd, with reverence they were heard ;
For in their daring creed, sublime, sincere,

Danger was found, that parson-hated word ;
They flatter'd none—they knew nor hate nor fear,
But taught the will of God—and did it here."
It used to be fashionable to say Religion is a
very good sort of thing for the lower orders—it
must be encouraged ; but they who used this
slang, forgot that the very religion of which they
invoked the aid would strike at the very root of
the corruption for the sake of which the aid was
wished. It is not among the moral and religious
people of this country that Captain Yorke will
find the Gospel of himself and the Bench of
Bishops in good odour.—Morning Chronicle.

We trust that in all cases in which, as in
Cambridgeshire, the Representative of the Crown
is found exerting himself to procure the return
of Members hostile to measures proposed by the
Government, and approved of by the people, an
example will at once be made of him. Minis-
ters owe it to the Crown, and to the people, to
exact a strict account from all those to whom
authority is delegated, of the manner in which it
is exercised. It is injustice towards the people,
to overlook at a crisis like this, any abuse of de-
legated authority. A house divided against it-
self cannot stand. if those to whom authority
is given by the Crown use that authority against
the Crown, are we to be astonished that its power
is impaired ? Government in matters of this
kind are not justified in being liberal. A trust
is reposed in them, which they are bound to exe-
cute in the way best calculated to further the
public service. Why was the last Parliament
dissolved ? In order that the sense of the people
might be taken on the measure of Parlia-
mentary Reform. But if the Lord Lieutenants
of counties, and the magistracy and clergy are
hostile to the measure, and use their influence
in obtaining the return of Members who share
their sentiments, how can it be said that the
sense of the people is taken ? With this heavy
drawback, the wonder is that the people were
able to do so much. We certainly were not
surprised that Dorsetshire should be unequal to
a second struggle with all the local authorities
and influence in the hostile scale ; but we are
most agreeably surprised to find that the people
of Cambridgeshire are triumphing in so noble a
manner, with every local authority against them.
The power of the executive is as necessary for
the good of the people, as the responsibility of
the executive to the representatives of the people.
To allow time power of the executive to be im-
paired by the opposition of part of those to
whom its authority is delegated, is to allow that
which is utterly unconstitutional. The idea of

the King's Lieutenant thwarting the King is
therefore monstrous. It is as bad as mutiny in
an army. The precedents cited by us on Satur-
day, show that former Administrations were not
so fastidious as the present in displacing Lord
Lieutenants on account of votes in Parliament.
These precedents ought to be acted on.—Morn-
ing Chronicle.

A meeting takes place this day at the Crown
and Anchor Tavern, at which the fearful project
of organizing the lower orders of the people in
armed associations
i is to be proposed for adop-
tion. The object n view has already been an-
nounced with sufficient candour by the leading
Radical Journal, according to which armed as-
sociations are necessary, in order not only that
property may be protected from the violence of
the mob, but that those who oppose themselves
to the rights of the people may not go un-
punished ! In other words, it is proposed to
shoot or sabre all who venture to take part against
the Reform Bill. Awful is the responsibility
of those in whom originate such counsels, and
of Ministers who, in their desperation, have
sown seeds of dissension, the hour of whose
ripening we tremble to believe must come. For
there is still a party, a numerous and undaunted
party, to whom the institutions of their
country are dear, and who will not shrink from de-
fending them. Their course is certain. When
we hear the heads of our church calumniated,
vilified, and insulted, because, like men of
' honour, they were noble-minded enough to do
their duty—when we see the Bishop of Lon-
don prevented by a set of miscreants (for no bet-
ter character can men desetve who would make
the House of God an arena for political strife)
from preaching the very gospel which we cherish
and profess—when we behold the hero of our
country, the unconquered warrior, the exalted
statesman, scoffed at by the crowd, denounced
by the democracy, and insulted by thousands
for whose welfare he has so often fought and
conquered—when we hear the most sacred in-
stitutions of the country threatened with destruc-
tion, and the Aristocracy of England—an Aris-
tocracy which has for ages proved the best de-
fence of British honour and of British glory_
stigmatised as tyrannical, and designated as un-
worthy to maintain its privileges—when we be-
hold all that is evil and theoretical promulgated,
all that is good and established despised—and,
above all, when we hear the organs of the Mi-
nistry urging the supporters of that Ministry to
resort to arms against their opponents—then
do we feel it our duty to respond to the cry,
and address the Tories of England in a simila'r
strain. " Form yourselves into associations I
frame them on a principle of military hierarchy,
capable of resorting to arms in case of attacks
by tumultuous mobs on persons, habitations, or I