The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-21 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 1841

to the mercies of the union workhouse. The hypocrisy of
this affected anxiety for the interests of the labouring pocr
is, however, equally transparent with its folly. Do they
who are so anxious to protect the labourer from the com-
petition of his aged f3tber.or infirm brother, show an equal
anxiety to protect him in the rather more formidable con-
test with capital and machinery? No; upon this point we
bear nothing from them. They will weep over the losses
of an errand-boy, whom a few shillings a week allowed to
an aged pauper puts out of employment, but they have no
feelings of compassion for a thousand labourers thrown out
of the means of maintaining themselves by steam-engines
or power-looms, or by laying under grass vast districts of
tillage-land. Such is their consistency I
COURIER.—It is really edifying to find one of the
Ministerial prints degenerating so much into the suaviter
inmodo, on occasion of an anti-Corn-law meeting in Man-
chester, where the clergy formed one of the usual staples
of vituperation, as to observe only, that " we were sorry
to hear the chairman at the Manchester meeting, Mr.
J. B. Smith, state, ' that they had met with much
opposition from their opponents, and those, too, were
men from whom they might have expected better things,
the clergy.' This cannot fail to diminish the utility of the
clergy, because such conduct is utterly at variance with
religion." The lament over the diminished " utility" of
the clergy is a novel feature in the political career of the
sectarian, or rather nothingarian, journalist, and would seem
to smack so much of the grace of repentance for past evil anti-
clerical and anti-religious courses, that we would gladly re-
frain from disturbing one in apparently so promising a frame
of mind, could we really believe as much in the endurance
as we do little in its sincerity. That Mr. J. 13. Smith, or
any person else of that stamp and station, should seize
every occasion to vituperate the Church and the clergy,
will excite the less surprise when it is taken into account
that the accuser is himself an off-shoot of a sectarian tribe, '
and even closely connected with a priestly family in it, and
a tribo usually remarked as the most sour, supercilious; and
intolerant of all sects since the days of the Pharisees, more
i especially when dominant, as n the days of the Long Par-
liament, Praise God Barebones and Oliver Cromwell.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
ROLLS COURT, APRIL 20.
JONES V. LOWELL.

A motion was made in this case for leave to present a
petition against the Southwark Improvements Bill, which
was now before the House of Commons. The facts were
these :—The bill was filed for the administration of the
estate of the testator in the cause, a gentleman who was
possessed of considerable property in Southwark. A re-
ceiver had been appointed, and tho affidavit in support of
the motion stated that in the Bill now in Parliament for
the improvement of Southwark, no clause was introduced
giving compensation for leasehold property held on lives,
and that as by the orders of the House of Commons no pe-
titions could be received on private Bills after the 22d of
April, leave should at once be given to the executers to
present their petition against the Bill.
His Lordship the MASTER of the ROLLS said that he
would give the executors leave to present the petition, but
not to proceed further without the leave of the Court.