The Sun.
London, England, 1838-10-18 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

If anything further were required to prove the superior
activity and intellig4nce of the merchants of the Indian
presidenFtes in d
!:;vising means for the improvement of the
commumeahong with England, it would be found 11'.. a tte-
- port, which we have already referred to, but now publish en-
tire, of Colonel Barr's proceedings in Egypt, under the su-
perintendence of the " Steam Committee" of Bombay.
We do not recollect ever to have seen a document, pro-
fessedly occupied as this is with simple details of busi-
ness, which is fitted to enlighten the world so much on a
most important subject, and to figure in so distinguished
a manner among the great incidents in this century con-
nected with the march of human improvement. We con-
foss that we have perused it with feelings of heartfelt gratifi-
cation, and anticipate from it the speedy approach of the day
when our Indian possessions, our much-neglected In-
dian possessions, the richest colonial diadem that
ever crowned the brow of any sovereign State, shall
be brought almost into contact with us, the distance re-
duced to an easy regular journey of about six weeks, as
near to us therefore, practically, as the West Indies and
Canada were till the steam communications with New York
were opened, and all the increased interest and improve-
ment to both obtained which must spring from so vital a
change in the mode of communication. Who can think of
these " stations" in the desert, the vans and omnibuses for
ladies and children, the provision to be made for an ex-
cursion to Thebes, like a branch railway to Stow-gar-
dens or to Woburn Abbey, and carry his mind back to
the long wanderings of God's chosen people over the
.ame route, left for 4,000 years down to the present
time barbarous and impracticable, and now to be opened
for the first time to the most weak and timid of tra-
vellers, without the deepest emotions. We confess that
we, having only the common interest of British subjects
in the matter, have run over it with delight, and have no
doubt that a still stronger feeling will be produced by it
among all those who are connected directly or indirectly
with India. This will be accepted as part fulfilment of our
-promise to pursue the inquiry respecting the existing impe-
diments to the communication with India, but we have not
yet done with it. We may refer to the information col-
lected yesterday in the City, on the arrival of an overland
despatch from India, to show that affairs in that quarter
are becoming critical, to say the least of it, and if the early
knowledge of what is passing there is material, as it must
be, for the purposes of timely interference and prevention
of mischief, there is another powerful impulse given to the
motives already urging on the mercantile interest of the
country to the improvement of the communication with
India.--Times.

Let a Tory master paint you the portrait of Toryism,
and a diviner party never governed a nation. No people
but the English ever merited such rulers. There is not a
liberty or advantage we enjoy for which we are not in-
debted to some Tory benefactor ; or an evil we suffer from
which a Tory Statesman would not deliver us in a week of
power. Were the Tories restored to office the empire
would thrive only too rapidly ; Reform would advance
with a fatal speed ; we should be too prosperous, too quiet,
too glorious by many degrees ; and then we should have
such an Eden in Ireland, that people would flock thither
from all quarters, leaving England and Scotland as de-
sert as Zahara. Indeed, why do the Tories covet place ?
Notoriously with no other object but to make us all
flourishing and happy, and bring back the golden days of
merry Old England. Mythologists assign to every nation
a guardian angel ; and the guardian angel of England is
clearly the spirit of Toryism ; a spirit " delicate" as Ariel,
but incomparably more benevolent and disinterested. Give us
back, give us back, we say, the halcyon days of Toryism and
true liberty, Toryism and genuine repose, Toryism and eter-
nal sunshine ! " Oh, who would not welcome those mo-
ments returning ?" Who would not hail the return of the
golden era when, at home and abroad, extravagance was
unknown, when grievance was redressed as soon as felt,
when a popular murmur was never heard, when enlighten-
ment and education careered in seven-leagued boots, when
Cabinets sat only to devise improvements, confer boons,
bestow franchises, mitigate the severity of oppressive laws,
and a myriad more offices of philanthropy and patriotism ?
Public virtue, thy name is Toryism ! Call a man a Tory,
and you are guilty of tautology if you add that his mind
is a store-house of wisdom, and his heart a magazine of
worth. Count the virtues of Tory days, and you can count
the Libyan sands, or the leaves of Vallambrosa, or aught
else that passes arithmetic. Dryden's Eleanora had not a
vaster crowd of excellencies :
" A multitude of virtues pass'd along,
Each pressing foremost in the mighty throng,
Ambitious to be seen, and then make room
For greater multitudes that were to come."
We have been an abject, miserable, outcast nation ever
since the demon of Whiggery, or Liberalism, prevailed over
our good genius, as " the foul witch Sycorax" had once the
mastery of the delicate Ariel, the type of Toryism, as Cali-
ban is the apt image of Reform. One thing, however, is
strange. The Tories themselves dislike the appellation
Tory : the epithet offends them ; the name by which they
did so many wondrous deeds, acquired such a hoard of re-
putation, and conferred such:enormous benefits upon Eng-
land, they would fain have forgotten or laid aside. To call
them Tories, is as offensive as to call them thieves. Why
is this? Whence comes it ? Surely, Tory Lords and
gentlemen, you never did any thing to make that name dis-
reputable I All your actions have associated the honour
and advantage of England with it—have they not ? By
that name you never jobbed ; by that name never practised
any corruption ; never attacked liberty ; never endan-
gered the public peace ; never protected abuse ; never
resisted the redress of grievances ; never violated the rights
of conscience ; never, of all things, oppressed Ire-
land; never loaded the people with taxes; never spent
those taxes in wasteful wars and gorgeous sinecures ;
never by the name of Tories did aught, surely, incon.
sistent with the strictest honour, or at variance with the
British interests in any quarter of the globe 1 Ab, Tory
Lords and Gentlemen, it is because you have done the
reverse of all these things, that you would fain be no more
called Tories. You know that every public act of your
party has made the Tory name a by-word and a brand of
infamy. By that name you governed England to her
burning shame and incalculable detriment ; by that name
you fleeced the people beyond all example in old or modern
story ; by that name carried the art of political corruption
to unknown heights of perfection and success; by that name
waged incessant war with liberty and conscience '•; framed
and pursued a system of government in Ireland, the only
Parallel of which is to be found in Virgil's " Tartarus," or
Milton's " Pandemonium ;" by that name shielded every
nuisance in the kingdom, cherished every blot upon our
laws and institutions, opposed every proposition of re-
form, no matter how moderate, and every effort of
philanthropy, no matter how flagrant the cruelty that
called for humane interposition. Well may you blush
to be called Tories. The word is written upon the
shackles of the press and the fetters of the slave. The
word Tory is in itself a compendious history of all the
crimes and follies of English Gevernmeut since the Revo-
lution ; it contains the annals of the long and disastrous re-
sistance offered to the measure of Catholic emancipation ;
it tells the tale of the profligate stand made for Gatton and
Old Sarum : well, indeed, may a party blush to be called
Tories. Conservatives is now the word; it is monstrous
te call them Tories any longer. They think to improve
their odour with the country by changing Tory to Conser-
vative, as if the name was a point of consequence ; as if
changing the sign could change also the thing signified ;
as if it sweetened a dunghill to call it Sabana, or would
mend Dr. Phillpotts to name him after St. John or St.
Peter. We have heard of an Irish peasant who christened
his pig by the charming name of Georgiana ; but the
Thee was as unsavory and grunted as discordantly as ever.
was
did not become a boudoir, nor did Georgiana
put off her piggish mind, or cease to wallow in the mire.
The " page of Cadogan-place" may be called Alphonse,
but he remains " Plain Bill" notwithstanding- "If ever
there was an Alphonse who carried plain Bill in his face
and figure, that page was the boy !"--Morning Chronicle.
There are few duties which ought to press themselves
more urgently upon the attention of Magistrates than that
es
of binding out poor children as apprentices to trades. That
such a mode of disposing of children, if previously
. well in-
quired into and considered, is both politic andhumane,
cannot be for a moment doubted ; but neither the bindine,
parish, nor the parents, in all cases, are to be implicitly
relied upon, both the one and the others' object too often
being to get rid upon any terms of a burden which they
are unwilling, and, in the case of the latter, often unable,
to maintain. These circumstances should only make the
Magistrate the more cautious, and his inquiries the
stringent ; as he must feel, or ought to feel, that more
eories
placed in loco parentis towards the children, whose fate,
either of prosperity o_r
e destruction, rests
on his decision.
W are led to these remarks by a
Case which occurred a few days since at one of
the police-offices, when
the Magistrates were induced
(mistakenly as we think) to bind one or more poor
children to the trade of a
Spitalfields weaver, though
opposed by the overseers
of
f that already-overburdened
to them, as common
district ; and though it was shown
notoriety must, we should think, have pretvioeusin a statelyinfor
ofmed
them, that that trade has been for along im
decay, and that there was every chance
and gs of misery
of children so bound
being only destined to add to the ma
pau-
perism with which the district has so long abounded. The
Magistrates in this case, indeed, appear to have taken a sin-
gularly narrow view of the matter, as they appear to have
postponed the case merely to ascertain whether the pro-
posed apprentice was likely to have a bed to lie on ;--the
very suggestion of a doubt about which, should have been
sufficient to have convinced them that the proposed binding
could not be a proper one. The one sole questio;:3l:l4oA
Magiatrltta's to ask ikeluevuii, Aim** thr•

binding is likely to be beneficial to the child ? " • -
_..... tins
question, in such cues as that we
be easily answered by ot. alluding to, would
_ ening this rule—that where there
are known trsto no Voluntary bindings, compulsory ones can
Tr...er be advisable.—Morniog Herald.
A year or twoago the Church was filled with alarm at the
assaults made upon her by the Dissenters, when the latter
were more active than they have bean of late in their as-
sertion of the voluntary principle. Her friends dreamed
not, at that time, that there was the slightest cause for
apprehension from any other quarter ; least of all did they
imagine that any danger was likely to arise from within
herself. The event has shown that in the latter respect
they were indulging in an imaginary security. The divi-
sions and disputes which have recently taken place among
her own Clergy, and the bitter animosity 'with which they are
carrying on their controversies together, threaten to effect
the ruin of the hierachy in a much shorter period than the
Dissenters could have hoped to achieve it. A house divided
against itself cannot stand ; the Church will constitute no
exception to the rule, unless the divisions which are now
raging within her walls be spoedily healed. The intolerable
despotism of some of her &gni taries is contributing essentially
to the same end. A remarkable instance of this p.elatieal
tyranny, which must lend a helping hand to the overthrow
of the Church, has occurred within the last few days. The
circumstances of the case may be stated in a few words.
The Bishop of Exeter exacts an obedience from his Clergy
which he has no right to demand. One of these Clergy
denies his authority, and raises the standard of rebellion
against his high behests. The refractory Clergyman is
taken to task by the Ecclesiastical Dignitary, whose pride
has bees wounded because his authority has been con-
temned. The poor Clergyman, frightened at the prospect
of something worse than his Bishop's censure—with eecle-
siastical persecution, if not legal proceedings—is fain to
succumb. Still the indigeant and mortified Prelate does
not relent ;he has mot sufficient generosity for that. On
the contrary, it would seem that the more the Clergyman
humbles and abases himself, the more harsh and vindictive
does his spiritual superior become. He " rebukes" his poor
penitent in a speech of near an hour's duration ; and assails
him in a most unmerciful manner. The latter cringes to
and quails before his powerful tormentor ; he utters not a
word. But does Dr. Philpotts suppose that because his vic-

tim is silent he is submissive in his heart? As soon might it
have been supposed that the pear West Indian negro, who, be-
fore the recent Emancipation 'Act was passed, bore the
lashes he was doomed to receive without offering resis-
tance to his flagellator, MIS reconciled to the system which
sanctioned such atrocities. If ever Mr. Head had any
affection far a Church which authorises such merciless and
humiliating treatment, the last vestige of that affection
must have vanished when the haughty' Prelate imposed
on himself the task of " rebuking" him for questioning his
authority, and disobeing Lis mandate. And how pained
and mortified must the other clergy in the diocese of this
imperious Prelate have been, while they listened to his
dagger-speaking apostrophes to Mr. Head. Must they not
have all felt themselves to be equally the slaves of their
spiritual superior? Must it not be gall and wormwood to
them to think that they dare not utter a syllable in the
way of disapproving of what their Bishop enjoins them to
do, far less refuse to do it, even where he has not the laws
of the Church in his favour ? 'What a humiliating posi-
tion for gentlemen and men of education to be placed in!
Such men may remain in a Church in which such things
can be practised ; but it is impossible they can have any
affection far her, or make any strenuous efforts in her be-
half.—Morning Adverliser.
1 London Journal, which is in the interest of the pre
sent Administration, and is manifestly used on sundry occa
sions by various departments of the Government, writes as
follows :

" The people of England must suffer the landholders of
the country to destroy their commerce abroad, by raising up
cheap manufactures abroad and starving them at home, for
the preponderance of the landed interest means that rents
must be kept up at the expense of the best interests of the
country. When the landlords have destroyed our trade, and
deprived our manufacturers of the means of purchasing, we
may have low prices, but not till then, for the landlords would
hazard any extremity rather than yield to the just claims of
the people."
We trust that the landholders of the country will not
fail to bear in mind that, fur the dessemination of such
falsehoods as the above—so likely to raise a vulgar and vio-
lent prejudice against the landed interest—the present Go-
vernment ought to be held in a very considerable degree ac-
countable. It is true that the Government leaders in Parlia-
ment do not hold this language, for they durst not. In Parlia-
ment such language, instead of bringing votes to their side,
would do exactly the reverse. But landowners and occupiers
ought not to be satisfied with mere Parliamentary silence,
when Journals which are notoriously under the influence
of the Government lose no opportunity of doing injury to
the landed interest. If this Government were not false and
treacherous to the landed interest, no such paragraph as
that above quoted would appear in the Ministerial Jour-
nals. We, therefore, venture to suggest to such gentle-
men as Mr. Byng, Mr. Handley, and Mr. Cayley, and many
more who hold views which they do, upon the subject of
protection to the interests of British agriculture, that they
ought either to make such a remonstrance as would cause a
discontinuance of attacks upon these interests in the Go-
vernment Journals, or to withdraw their support from a
Government which actually gives encouragement to such
attacks. As to the assertion that foreign commerce is de-
stroyed by the laws in force for the protection of the inte-
rests of our agriculture—or that it is merely for the sake
of the landlords' rents that these laws are maintained—or
that very low prices for corn would be, upon the whole, ser-
viceable to a country circumstanced as Great Britain is,
we have shown over and over again that all such assertions
are mere fallacies, unsupported by any sound argument,
and unsanctioned by experience. Short-sighted greedi-
ness, and popular shallowness and error, are the sources of
all the clamours against the Corn-laws. This the Minis-
ters will not deny, while they encourage their Journalists
(for the sake of a spurious and temporary popularity) to
maintain that these Corn-laws are weapons forged by the
landowners wherewith to wound and oppress the people.
No landowner of sense or spirit ought to support a Govern-
ment which practises such double-dealing.—Morning Post.

APOSTOLICAL SUCCESSION.—In a speech at the
late meeting of the London Missionary Society in Leeds, the
Rev. Mr. Carruthers, of Liverpool, formerly Missionary in
the Crimea, related an amusing instance of the importance
attached to apostolical succession among the Kalmuk Tartars.
When at Astracan, Mr. Carruthers visited the place of wor-
ship of the Kalmuks, and saw their high-priest arrayed in his
splendid yellow pontifical robes. Observing a machine re-
sembling a hollow grindstone in the church, he asked the high-
priest its use, when the latter told him that it was of great
use, for it was a praying machine—that the people wrote their
hrayers on pieces of paper, which he put all together into the
ollow wheel, and, turning round the handle, thus prayed for
the Kalmuks. Another thing which provoked the Missionary's
curiosity was, that be saw the high-priest pour some dirty
liquid out of a large bottle into a small bottle, and solemnly
drink off the liquid ; and on inquiring why this was done, he
was told that that bottle contained the ashes of the high-
priest's predecessor, and that it was the custom to burn the
body of a deceased high-priest, and then to mingle the ashes
with water, a portion of which was drunk by his successor
every morning until the whole of the former pontiff had been
received really and bodily into the system of the existing pon-
tiff This practice is worthy of the devout consideration of
the Oxford divines, as it affords the truest realization of apos-
tolical succession that we have ever heard of. May it not
also admit of a question whether the Kalmuk praying-machine
is not just as efficacious as priestly absolution ?

The " Animals' Friend Society" has been unfor-
tunate last week in havinr, been obliged to bring the chief of
the cases before Mr. Senett, at Hatton-garden, and Mr.
Lentbam, at Dover, these Magistrates having always been
adverse to the Society, and the cases were accordingly dis-
missed. Edward Reevcs was charged by two witnesses at
Dover with having whipped a horse till the whip was covered
with blood : this was one of the cases dismissed. And Charles
Green and John Atkins were charged also by two witnesses,
at Hatton-garden, with having very cruelly whipped and
wheeled a horse, which cases were likewise dismissed by Mr.
Benett, because the whip was not produced, and the master
did not appear I The Society, however, caused James Barton
to be imprisoned by Mr. Witham, at Hatton-garden, for cruelty
to a sheep.

MACHINE FOR THE CURE OF APOPLEXY, SUG-
GESTED BY MR. KIWIS GOSIPERTZ.—Provide a plank with a
perpendicular axle at one end, and place the axle in a socket, so
that the plank can turn round horizontally, like a turnpike-
gate ; then let the patient lie on the plank, with his head near
the axle, and let this plank be caused to revolve swiftly, so
that the blood in the patient's head may, by means of centrifu-
gal force, be forced towards his extremities. —Mechanics'
Journal.
SOUTH AMERICA.---By the Courier merchant-
ship letters and Papers have been received from Valparaiso to
the 22d July. The expedition against Peru had sailed from
thence on the 10th. The number of troops on board is re-
ported in private letters to have been 8,000, but according to
the
The Pa Piepers 6,000. On the 20th they were off Coquimbo.
Papers were filled with Orders of the Day and Procla-
mations to the Peruvians from the President of Chili and
Manuel Baines, the General in command of the expedition.
The troops were desenifedentthoubf in excellent spirits, and the
ppeeaorpslenoeet
the
leittt°l::afturlalordinary enthusiasm
the
thef funds could
Itf ap-
pears
equip in so short a time an expedition
fcui:niiccho,uwithe o u
refer-
ence to the population and resourcs o
reckoned formidable. It is made matter of boal,st Tiayttesotrlygabnes
of Government that they have levied no forced loryi.n or extra-
ordinary evictions of any kind to meet the vast expenditure
necessary, and it is exultingly appealed to in proof that no
part of the effects, arms, or ammunition required, remained
unpaid for. No inconsiderable proportion of the force was
composed of volunteers, vnd even among them were many
citizens oValparaiso. From Bahia of the 23d of August
o
interest has been received. The exchange was
o,„ off
at arni