The Sun.
London, England, 1849-04-26 00:00:00

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LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1849

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Cant has gained the day in Parliament. One bun
Bred and thirty-one of our Representatives have
negatived the Bill by which the Hon. Gentleman
the Member for Honiton has been striving to beat
down the sanctimonious insolence of the Sabbata-
rians. There is, consequently, as we intimated only
the other evening, no further doubt as to the neces-
sity of a hand to hand encounter with these arrant
humbugs, the religionists. After a little sharpshoot-
ing in the way of sundry petitions up to the Le-
gislature, after the succession of skirmishes between
the belligerents on the occasion of the first and
second readings, they have eventually thrown aside
the weapons suitable for a more distant encounter,
and closed upon each other, foot to foot, knee to
knee, for the settlement of their very serious differ-
ences. Now that we have lost, for the time being,
the measure introduced to the Commons by Mr.
LOCKE, we are only -the more eager to accept the
gauge of battle, and we do so cordially on the simple
understanding that there shall be No Quarter !
When we had last the gratification of express-
ing our opinion upon this moot question as to
Sue day travelling, we avowed at once that the saints
of Scotland would very soon drive the vast majority
of the population of the United Kingdom to the alter-
native of riot in the streets, or of submission to their
ignorant domination. They are fulfilling our pre-
diction faster than we had anticipated. For we looked
to the Imperial Parliament for the prevention of such
a calamitous alternative, and the Parliament has merely
shown itself to be infected by the prevailing hypocrisy.
As to the choice of the multitude, there is not the
shidow of a moment's hesitation. Submission to the
decrees of a wretched minority of fanatics is altogether
out of the question. As well expect the English
people to revive the age of the Roundheads. To
state the ease distinctly in little more than half-a-
dozen syllables—the; population will not submit to the
dictation of a contemptible squad of psalm-singers,
whatever a few whining petitioners may say to the
contrary, in spite of that very clerical layman Mr.
'Pins PEMBERTON PLUMPTRE, and in defiance of an
accidental superiority on the part of the Sabbatarian
voters in the Commons House of Parliament. The
fanatics in the present instance are the aggressors,
and they must abide the consequence of their aggres-
aiOn. They are endeavouring to cram their very
corruptible sanctity down the throats of the multi-
tude, and they must not feel surprised if, in retalia-
tion, or rather in self-defence, the multitude hurl
back their impudenee in their teeth—with a slight
accompaniment t Theirs is the provocation—theirs
be, the consequence. We can promise them no
sympathy. Not a jot. Their tyrannical affectation of
morality has removed them for ever beyond the reach
of our condolence.
A few words as to the absurdity, not to say the in-
decency, of their late proceedings. •• • • Within
the present week it would appear that a deputation
from Newcastle-on-Tyne waited upon the Home
Secretary for the purpose of urging upon the Govern-
ment the necessity of opposing the Bill introduced by
the Hon. Member for Honiton—this highly moral
deputation consisting of the Rev. LEWIS PARGE, of
one Mr. GEORGE BELL, and of a most extraordinary
functionary, the Reverend T. BAYLEE, designated
in the Court Circular as Secretary to the London
fOrd s -day Society. The Country Lord's-day being
of course quite a different sort of an affair altogether !
All that we can make out of the official character of
this same dignitary being, that he bears some
relation to the great civic authority at the Mane
sign-house, the LORD MAYoit being the only
~e1,„44444"1 - Lord n e know of, and the London
le!MrallYi meaning, of course, the ninth of
r•-ZNE f As to; the moral of the deputation,
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