The Sun.
London, England, 1838-12-11 00:00:00

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WITH WHICH
THE - ct TRUE SUN" IS NOW

INCORPORATED.

LONDON :
TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 11, 1838.

The Government has received despatches from Mr.
M'NEIL, the British Ambassador in Persia, dated
the Bth of October, from Tabriz, where his Excellency
was then awaiting the close of negotiations relative to
some minor points of difference between himself and
the SHAH. These despatches confirm the accounts
previously received at Constantinople of the rais-
ing of the siege of Herat on the 9th of Sep-
tember, and of the army of the SHAH being fifty miles
distant from that city on the 12th. The SHAH had
promised Mr. M'NEIL that on his MAJESTY'S re-
turn to Teheran he would enter into such treaties with
the Governor of Herat as would satisfy his British
ally that nothing was farther from his thoughts than
any desire to disturb the friendly relations hap-
pily subsisting between England and Persia. Mr.
M'NEIL, however, was not thrown off his guard by
professions dictated by the appearance of a British
military force at Bushire ; especially as the Monarch
appeared in no haste to punish those insults offered to
the British Ambassador by his Ministers, and
which, in a semi-barbarous country like Persia,
could not be overlooked without exposing the
high pretensions of England to popular contempt.
His firmness had greatly disconcerted the agents of
Russia, who had promised the SHAH that he would
have no difficulty in making himself master of Herat
before the British Ambassador could take any step to
prevent such a result. They are now busy in circu-
lating reports that to them England and Persia are in-
debted for clearing up an unfortunate misunderstanding
between the two countries—a misunderstanding wholly
attributable to the impetuosity of our enlightened and
patriotic representative in Persia. They hope by
this means to induce Lord PALMERSTON to re-
place Mr. M‘NErr, by some suckling in oriental
diplomacy, whom they may unconsciously con-
vert into a tool to advance the interests of
the CZAR. 'l'o counteract the influence which
such representations may have upon the councils of
the SHAH, it is the duty of our Government to take
an early occasion of marking, by some distinction or
decoration, the high sense which her MAJESTY enter-
tains of the value of Mr. M'I\TEI L's diplomatic services,
and particularly with regard to the course adopted by
him to maintain the independence of the city of Herat.

If it be true, as many naval officers assert, that
there are more ships in her MAJESTY'S Navy than
men could be found for under any circumstances, the
Admiralty, both under Tory and Whig administra-
tions, must come in for the entire blame. They have
been building, year after year, new ships, while, accord-
ing to their own officers, many of these ships must be
utterly useless, even in case of a war, and must rot in
our harbours for want of sailors. If such be the fact,
Vic public naturally ask of what use is it to put such
men as HARDY, or ADAM, or PARKER, into the
Admiralty, while they only think of keeping up the
number of ships, and neglect to provide what every
landsman knows to be the most important element of
our naval power, a numerous and efficient body of
seamen. While we are not inclined to concur in the
sweeping censure of these officers, it cannot be denied
that the men to whom the Navy has been entrusted for
the last twenty years have not changed with the
times, and that they have trusted, and still trust, in
case of a war, to the odious and unjust system of im-
pressment, without holding out encouragement by
bounty or better treatment to sailors in the merchant
service to enter the Navy. England possesses more
numerous fleets of merchantment than any other
power, and to these our old Admirals look in the
event of a sudden war ; but will the country now go
with them in reviving the old practice not of naval
conscription, but of kidnapping fishermen from their
families, and the best sailors from the mercantile navy,
to be thrown on board her MAJESTY'S fleet, to be
treated as they were during the last war like felons,
and, after a compulsory enlistment, to be subjected to
the old barbarous naval code which gave officers the
power of flogging and even hanging the defenders of
their country for offences of the most venial descrip-
tion? These days are gone by, we trust never to be
revived. The general voice of the public is that there
should be better treatment, better pay, a more humane
code of laws for the Navy, and a liberal bounty, and
with such regulations plenty of men might be had in a
few months. We have enough ships at present, let
only the money, therefore, which would be required
for building one ship each year, say 100,0001., be set
apart for bounties and increase of pay, or double, nay
treble that amount if necessary, and those officers,
who now look with despair on the state of our Navy,
would soon find all their prophecies falsified.

The country, it is admitted by the Chronicle, is
getting into an unfavourable condition, and the Mi-
nisters occupy a situation which that Journal says is
not to be envied. Whether they have the sagacity to
extricate it out of its difficulties time will show ; but
the Tories, if we may judge from the language held
by their organs, would wedge and ram it in, till revolu-
tion burst asunder all restraints, and threw off the
whole apparatus of government, lay and ecclesias-
tical. Not content with a rebellion in Canada,
which is now feebly nursed by a small, a weak,
and despised portion of the United States, the
Times labours to blacken the motives and con-
duct of their President to excite a national war,
and give to the Canadian rebels the assistance of
all the resources of twelve million Americans. Not
content, too, with the Precursor agitation, which Mr.
O'CONNELL is getting up in Ireland, and which
would embarass any Government, the Tory Journals
would stimulate him and the Popish priests to fiercer
activity and more deadly hostility. To nourish similar
feelings in the Dissenters in England is the great ob-
ject of the Church party ; and supposing their policy
not enough injurious here, the Standard strenuously
advocates extending it to Upper Canada, and ranging
irr,4lkool4/42lics and Presbyterians there in opposition
si et ent, by quartering upon them, with all
4:ot, Episcopal Church of England. To
Ae 3, enters here on the hands of the Govern-
-4r -.441041A ► rch, does not satisfy the Tory gluttons,
pas

they would excite against both all the manufacturing
classes by a firm denial of all redress on the subject of
Corn, and by enhancing— if we believe the Herald—the
restrictions on industry. The Tories would combine
the Chartists, now wrangling amongst themselves
and weak by their own disputes, into one firm
phalanx, by an attempt to coerce them. War abroad
and oppression at home is the cry of the Tories ; and
so valiant are they, that forsaken and hated as is the
landed aristocracy of England by the bulk of the
people, and opposed as the ambitious claims of the
priesthood are by more than half the nation, the
aristocracy and the priesthood fancy they can subdue
foreign states and the bulk of the people to their will.
We certainly doubt whether the policy of the Whigs
can save the nation from a frightful commotion, but
we have no doubt whatever that the policy of the
Tories would hasten on a dreadful revolution. The
Tory idea of governing by coercion, even if adopted
by the Whigs, must be given up entirely, or open
resistance will be the inevitable consequence.

The Rev. EBENEZER MORRIS, Vicar of Llanelly,
is a trump. We do not know a finer specimen of the
persecutor. He is none of your shilly-shally, half-
measure men, who shrink from the full practical de-
velopment of their principles—who advance with a
timid step, and then retreat as if alarmed at their own
boldness. Not a particle of nervousness is there in
EBENEZER'S composition ; he is a regular " whole-
hogger," inscribing " no quarter" on the banner of the
Cross, and wielding his ecclesiastical tomahawk and
scalping-knife with a merciless and vindictive zeal which
might excite the envy of a Cherokee—and all for the
glory of GOD, and the honour of that Apostolical
Church which has put these holy weapons into his
hands to defend her rights and privileges.
It is not many days since we had occasion to notice
the doings of this worthy disciple of St. Dominick,
in the case of JOHN JAMES, a Dissenter, whom he
tore from an afflicted family, and immured in a dun-
geon, where he still lies, for the crime of not attending
Church. We have to record to-day another exploit of a
similar, or rather, if possible, more atrocious charac-
ter, performed by the same champion of a State-born
Church. EBENEZER MORRIS, be it known, is a plu-
ralist. He holds two livings, and a double portion of
zeal is expected from a man who has a double inte-
rest in the loaves, and fishes. He is Rector, Vicar, or
something else, of Llanon, as well as Incumbent
of Llanelly ; and, in order to follow out his
pastoral proceedings towards JOHN JAMES, in
Llanelly, with due consistency and impartiality
in Llanon, he has instituted an ecclesiastical suit
against the Dissenting Churchwarden of that parish
also; and DAVID JONES, the person who held that
office last year, was actually lodged in Carmarthen
Gaol on Saturday last, at the instance of his meek
and heavenly-minded parish priest ! The delin-
quencies of DAVID JONES are thus described
in a letter which we have received from a cor-
respondent on the spot :—" Mr. DAVID JONES
has this moment been brought into Carmarthen
Gaol, a -prisoner, at the instance of his Vicar,
for non-attendance at Church, and not providing the
sacramental elements. These are his offences. All
the formalities of the law were complied with
by him, in summoning the raishioners, and en-,
deavouring to discharge his duties, but they re-
fused to allow any funds for that purpose, and
proceedings were instituted against the Church-
warden to punish him personally and criminally, for
no default of his own, but for the acts of those whose
mere servant or representative he was. This man can
not pay if he were disposed to do it, and he will re-
main in custody quite as long as may be required."
What a beautiful moral picture the conduct of the
Rev. EBENEZER MORRIS presents to the contem-
plative mind I What a heavenly glow of Gospel
feeling is thrown over it ! What a study for the ad-
mirers of a State religion

Under the head " Spirit of the Public Journals" we
have extracted an article from the Times, on the sub-
ject of Railways in Ireland, the insertion of which in
our columns calls for a few passing observations. Our
Contemporary has devoted much space to the discus-
sion of the details of the Report of the Irish Railway
Commissioners ; but never in such a way as

to show that he cared one straw for• the
question, except in so far as it afforded
the organs of the Tories an additional pretext for
continuing a senseless clamour against Mr. O'CoN-
NELL and the Government. Look, for example, at
the article to which we are now referring. What
possible connection is there between Mr. 0' C o NN EL l.'s
opinions about the Tithe Bill and the establishment
of a general system of railways throughout Ire-

land ? What even does it matter what Mr.
O'CONNELL, or any other individual in Eng-
land or Ireland, may insinuate about over-reaching us

n an affair the main controul of which cannot be

wrested out of the hands of Parliament ? Seriously to
propose that the legislation for a kingdom should be
regulated by the degree of good faith which may be
reposed in the promises of this or that individual, is
so monstrous that we are surprised any public Journal
could be guilty of such folly. If Parliament were seriously
to legislate upon the faith of pledges given by any one
individual, when passing a Tithe Bill applicable to all

Ireland, there is no person acquainted with the prin-
ciples of our Constitution, who would not denounce
such legislation as a violation of the most sacred
eights of the people. The Act would not be a
law, but a contract, and Parliament has not

the power to make any such as is here presumed.
But the truth is, as we said before, the Times
is indifferent to the Railway question, as far as regards
the improvement, physical and moral, of the Irish
people. The Tories do not want to see Ireland trans
quil, or her population prosperous. The religious
bickerings and physical wretchedness of the Irish
population are essential to the domination, in
some shape or other, of faction in England.
Ireland as she is serves as a hunting ground
to the younger sons of the Aristocracy,
who contrive to subsist comfortably by the profits
arising from sinecure establishments, maintained at the
public cost, for the multiplication of abuses. But in-
tersect Ireland by railways—call her vast resources
into profitable operation—give free and fair scope to
her industry, and we shall soon behold a nation too
wealthy, powerful, and intelligent to submit to wrongs
which neither England nor Scotland would tolerate
for an instant. We have repeatedly answered all the
objections urged by the Times with respect to Govern-
ment jobbing ; and when the question is regularly before
Parliament we shall have much more to say upon that
point. The proprietors of the Birmingham Railway
Company will at once admit, that the reference of the
Times to them, by way of illustrating the o private Companies' calculations of expenditure, isexactness ludi -f crously unfortunate.

The observationwhich we made yesterday on the
Denham Park Institution, for the temporary retire-
ment of persons labouring under mental disease, have
called forth a letter from a Correspondent which, ac-
cording to our general practice, We
have given to the
public. It certainly was not our intention to with-
hold praise where praise is due, and had
we known
that there was a single Lunatic Institution, of a
private nature, conducted on the principles of hu-
manity and common sense, we should not have pointed
out Denham Park as the first intQ which th9s9 prin.

ciples have been introduced. We are, however, happy
to find, and obliged to our Correspondent for in-
forming us, that there was one of this description
previously in existence, although he candidly
admits, that " all who have paid the least at-
tention to this painful subject must be well aware
that our sweeping censure is only too fully borne out
by the truth." If, however, we have erred in supposing
that the humane and judicious system of treating in-
sanity adopted at Denham Park originated with the
managers of that institution, we have erred along with
Sir WI LLIA NI ELLIS, who, as a writer on the treatment
of this malady, must be supposed to have made him-
self well acquainted with the subject in all its relations.
Let us then see what this gentleman says on the point
in question.

In his work on insanity, published not many months
ago, we find the following excellent remarks on the
treatment of that class of patients for which the esta-
blishment at Denham Park appears to be instituted :--
' But it is in vain to hope to rouse the intellectual and the
nobler faculties of patients in the higher ranks, so long as they
are left to the society of a keeper or a nurse. They ought to
be the associated companions of persons of benevolent disposi-
tions, of refined habits, and of cultivated tastes."

Sir WILLIAM not only asserts that no Insti-
tution, embracing this and other advantages which are
to be found at the Denham Park Establishment, at
present exists, but endeavours to account for its non-