The Sun.
London, England, 1836-03-28 00:00:00

moral sense. It is time that a vigilant system of
local Government were set on foot, to endeavour

to put an end to this. Great would be the
labour—we well know—and great the perse-
verance necessary to accomplish a reform of such
abominations, which are deeply rooted in the habits of
the population for generation upon generation. Butit
ought nevertheless to be attempted, and to make any
new constitution of municipal government, without a
most earnest view to the cleansing away of those town
nuisances, is a neglect little short of criminal. Now
there is no chance of any reform of this kind under the
operation of the new Bill. The lower order of rate-
payers are so accustomed to the sight of this beggary
and beastliness—these perpetual brawls and breaches of
the peace, that habit has worn away disgust. It is
certain that they will neither take the trouble nor
make the sacrifices necessary for the removal of these
horrid sinks of degradation, crime, and pestilence, nor
is there any hope that the Roman Catholic clergy
will exert themselves for such a purpese. They are too
busily employed in political agitation to have any time
or energy to spare for civilizing the people over whom
they reign with absolute sway. , Neither have they (in
general) much inclination that way, for with improve-
ment would come independence, and the priests do not
wish the common people to be independent of them.
We therefore intreat. every man in and out of Parlia-
ment, who has the welfare of Ireland at heart, to re-
member that a system is wanted in that kingdom which
may teach the people habits of cleanliness, and com-
fort, and decency, and independence, and that nothing
is less likely to promote such a system than new laws
for the furtherance of political agitation, and for giving
the Roman Catholic priests fresh interest in making
passive political instruments of the population. For
God's sake let the people of Ireland have moral and
physical improvement, and let great care be taken to
provide for them such government and such teachers.
as will promote these ends. Assuredly neither Mr.
O'Connell and his political trained bands, nor the Ro-
man Catholic priests, with their ardent craving after
.political domination, will be the means of providing
real justice and sound reform for the Irish people.—
Morning Herald.

The picture of the condition of things in Spain, as
pourtrayed by our Expresses, is not many degrees more
satisfactory, and barely more intelligible, than the
neutralized and amphibious state of administrative ex-
istence, Sketched by the same hand, in reference to
France. M. Mendizabal is, however, a very different
man from M. Thiers, nor could the Christino Go-
vernment be compared with the Orleans, without im-
putative calumny on the former. M. Mendizabal's
Cabinet is surrounded by difficulties, like that of Louis
Phillippe ; but they are not difficulties growing out of
his own treachery, or of his own creating He is it
once an able and an honest man ; and in his exertions
to overcome the difficulties which Conservative in-
trigues and Conservative funds have contrived to gather
round his path, he has, at all events, the sympathy
of the people with him, in whose cause no one
can doubt that he is sincerely embarked. If
those difficulties are occasionally too much for him
--if in spite of -all zeal and ability, they occasion-
ally counteract or subvert, the best of his pro-
jects, and the most liberal of his plans, justice will
be rendered to him by those who are perfectly aware
of what he has to encounter from secret treachery and
open violence. If he fails or falls, there will, there-
fore, neither be the humiliation accompanying the
failure, nor the danger following the fall, as we on
Friday inferred would certainly accompany the first
trip of Louis Phillippe. M. Mendizabal has steadily
pursued the line of liberal policy which he chalked out
on entering the Ministry, and to which he owned him-
self pledged. All his measures, since he has been in
power, have been unexceptionably in conformity with
the spirit of the age. A broad, sagaciout and states-
manlike policy has characterised all he has proposed or
effected—whether in organic reforms, or administra-
tive—whether in the overthrow of ecclesiastical or of
political abuses—whether in his commercial or fiscal
modifications or improvements. The features of
a philosophical statesmanship, which ought to mark
all intelligent Governments at the present day, charac-
terize all he has proposed, all he has accomplished,
and all lie has, unfortunately, .failed accom-
plishing. He may be said rather to have been in ad-
vance of the demands of the age, than either to have
followed or accompanied them. This is a high cha-
racter—the highest that a statesman can deserve or
enjoy—and it is one which will always follow him,
either in the bustle of the Cabinet, or should he fall
into the tranquillity of retreat. The difficulties with
which he is surrounded appear to us 'to be almost in-
surmountable. We -suspect those difficulties to arise,
in a very large degree—not less from the secret aid of
the Conservative and Absolutist factions, whose in-
terest is the same in every part of Europe—not
less from sins of commission by • end-tries than
from sins of omission by friends. We mean a want
of cordial support from the neighbouring Govern-
ment of France, whence (being ostensibly embarked
in the same cause) he ought to expect in common
reason; corroboration, countenance, and aid. But
that Government, as we showed on Friday, is not
in a wholesome state. It wears the mere mask of li-
berty. The language of the Barricades is on its lips,
but its heart is with the despots. It is hollow, false
and rotten from top to toe. Were it not, indeed, that
the despots perfectly understand Louis Phillippe's se-
cret inclinations towards them, they would not dare to
risk the repeated acts of aggression upon European
liberty which they do. What can be expected from
a Government hypocritically pandering to the liberti-
cide design of the absolute powers, in order to earn a
place in their divan, and to perfume itself into
fitness for their legitimate and democratic sa-
vour of the Barricades ?—How can such a poli-
tical "standing lie" as this Government sympa-
thise with the honest intentions of Mendizabal
in favour of public liberty and public reform ?
Every liberal measure he brings forward must b 9 felt
as a moral blow by his apostate neighbour, and every
improvement which he makes will be felt, and truly
felt,. to increase the clatterer of his position by aug-
menting, through unfavourable contrast, the public
odium in which he has been long sinking, and is at
present involved. In a word, we believe the duplicity
of France to be one of the main causes of the ambigu-
ously protracted warfare in the North of Spain. There
is a moral as well as physical aid, and vice versa.
Hints are occasionally thrown out of French interven-
tion against the Carlist rebels ; but we are not to be
deluded into a belief that the " Ethiopian changes his
skin, or the leopard his spots." There is not- tile
slightest sincerity in any such intention. " Credat
Judceus appella ; non Ego." A man does not readily
assist that which he dreads ; nor weaken or injure that
cause with which his sympathies are bound up ; upon
the success of which he builds his evil hopes ; and
plays his last desperate and dishonourable stake...—.
Morning Advertiser.

TRENIAINE.—The Quarterly Review, in an able ar-
ticle on Mr. Ward's " Tremaine, or the Man of Refinement,"
remarks that "the character of the hero is admirably sustained,
He exhibits one of the very few faithful pictures of the gen-
tlemanlike character. The story is excellently told." This
production, a most worthy companion to " Pelham," is now in
course of publication in the new issue of " Colburn's Modern
Novelists, in weekly shilling Numbers, and is, like Mr. Bul-
wer's admirable work, to be completed in six Parts, with a
portrait of the author, and three other engravings, by the
Findens. The second Number is now before us.
RIPON.--TITHE UPON MlLK.—William Darn-
borough was this day, (March 18th,) summoned before two of
the Magistrates, viz., Charles Oxley, Esq., and the Rev. J.
Newsam, for the payment of tithe upon milk, to the amount of
11. 4s. After the reading of the summons, William Darn_
borough was asked why he would not pay, to which he replied
that he thought it unreasonable, and stated that the milk was
ready according to the previous notice he had given, for the
tithe upon it to be taken in kind, and further stated the milk
should be ready for them every morning and evening, if they
would only come for it, and he very civilly and firmly stated,
that he would not pay the tithe upon it in any other way than
in kind. The Rev. Magistrate recommended the tithe agent,
who is a solicitor, to go to the extremity of the law in getting
the demand. Is it not repugnant to the feelings of every libe-
ral minded person to see the established priesthood thus fed
from the hard-earned earnings of the laborious and indus-
trious. And for what ? To pamper a Dean and Chapter al-
ready rolling in wealth and luxury.' The late Dean of Ripon
( Dr. Waddilove) left him an immense fortune about 120,0001.,
or more, and it is well known the church nursed him well, and
yet he never demanded this obnoxious tithe upon milk to the
rigour now enforced. Well may the juvenile inhabitants of
Ripon follow " the very reverend the Dean," saying " Milk
Dean," which words are also writen on the door posts.