The Sun.
London, England, 1840-05-06 00:00:00

Sir W. SIOLESWORTH submitted his motion for the
abolition of the punishment of transporation, and the
forestalling the revenues of the colonies to promote
emigration. This is Sir W. MOLEswoaTit's hobby,
which he rides every year, and now seems to ride no
other. He is more anxious to transport the people
than make them happy at home. He repeated a long
eut-and-dry speech on the subject, and condemned both
the modified system of transportation for punishment,
receativ proposed by the Governiwnt, and the old sys-
tem. motion gave rise to a considerable discus-
sion. It was opposed by Lord JOHN RUSSELL, and
was, in the end, negatived-without a rirision.
Mr. LABOUCHERE obtiirrd leave to bring in a Bill 1
to amend the Pilotage laws.

Mr. HUME'S motion fora Committee to inquire into
Import Duties, was agreed to.
Sir G. GREY'S motion to hare the Act of the
Legieiature of Upper Canada, relative to public land,
printed, was also agreed to.
The Importation of Flour (Ireland) Bill went through
a Committee.
At Half-past Eleven the House adjourned.

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The Morning Post has suddenly become ma-
thematical ; it has long been scurriions. Like
another morning jackass of the press it, sometime
ago, concluded it could be great like the Times,
by im;tating that journal, and it assumed the lion's
skin ; but no human being ever mistakes the hi-
deous bray of either for the roar of the monarch of
the Tory journals. Of the new art of the Post
this is its yesterday's specimen :
Because Mr. Manners Sutton is the grandson of an
Archbishop, and his seat at Csmdridge has been forfeited
for bribery, of which no one has dared to say that he was
cognisant, it is assumed that a direct connection is esta-
blished between bribery and the Church ! !
Again, beeanee there has been bribery in the ;own of
Cambridge, and there is a great University in that town;
and the Church is closely connected with the Universities,
it is triumphantly concluded that the Church must pa-
tronize bribery I I
Do not these fools see how easily their logic is reduced
ad absurdum. From 1832 to 1840 the town of Cambridge
always returned two Whig-Radical Members. But there
is a great University in the town, and tin University is
closely connected with the Church, therefore (according
to the bribery logic) the Church for eight ye .ra returned
two Whig-Radical Members. But the Church hates
Whig-Radicalism, and never does return Whig- Ra&cal
Members, therefore the Church did not for eight years re-
turn the Whig. Radii al Members for Cambridge ; but the
previous argument shows that they did, therefore the
Church at one ar.d the same time did and did not do one
and the same thing E. D.
This reductio ad absurdum overlooks some facts,
and, with all deference to the mathematical genius
of the Port, we opine that even demonstration,
particularly a long deduction, resting as all mathe-
matical evidence ultimately does (pace Cambridge
University) on facts, must give way to facts.
Taking facts into consideration, mixed mathema-
tics would afford a happier solution of the problem.
For eight years the University of Cambridge, and
the high Churchmen who derive their morality
from it, tried to keep out two Whig-Radical Mem-
berv, and return two Tory corrupt Members. For
eight years the impetus-of the Reform enthusiasm,
generated in the year 1830, overcame the load the
corruptionists compelled it to carry and resist.
The never-lessening weight gradually became more
powerful than the impetus, checked it, stopped it,
and placed, by bribery, a Tory in the representa-
tion of Cambridge, to be turned cut whenever ihe
means were investigated by vi hick he obtained his
seat. Our reasoning is not so formal as that of
cur Contemporary, but it is a much better represen-
tr, don of the facts. Mr. SUTTON was elected by
bribery and corruption ; the men who bribed and
the men who were corrupted were Churchmen ;
they derive their morality from the Chinch, and
therefore the Church teaches bribery and corrup,

Lion.

We are by no means sorry to be called on
by the article of the Post to • say a few
words more on this - subject. The friends
anti advocates of the Church claim as her
offspring all that is virtuous in the empire.
She is the teacher of the people and the mother of
their morality. She monopolizes education and
lays down rules of conduct for all. We affirm,
then, that she is equally responsible for the
national vices and the national crimes. She can-
not take credit for all that is good in the national
manners without being justly chargeable also with
all that is bad. It is assumed that she has power
to make virtuous, and she is, on that favourite
supposition of the Tories, to blame for all the vice
in the empire.
The particular circumstance which called forth
the remarks is the corruption of electors and candi-
dates, as exemplified at Cambridge. Now the
great majority of the candidates who corrupt the
electors are educated by the clergy. Almost all
the Peers who, in their several counties, exercise a
sinister and corrupt influence over their tenants, are
educated by the clergy. We know that the clergy,
as titheovulers and landowners, exercise themselves
a similar corrupt influence, and induce or com-
pel their tenants and other dependents to give an
unconscientious vote flora pecuniary motives. That
sort of corruption is the root of all the bribery and
treating at eiections ; the great authors of that are
the pupils of the priesthood, or the priesthood them-
selves; and the Church, therefore (as the priest-
hood call themselves the Chinch), is really the.
author of the greater portion of all the electoral
corruption in the empire. Moreover, it is practised
in nine- cases out of ten, for behoof of the Church,
and what occurred at Cambridge is only a specimen
of what the Church causes in every part of the
empire.
What complaint does the bulk of the people
make of tile Legislature ? It is charged, in the
case of the Corn-laws—openly and distinctly charged,
with inflicting hunger, disease, anti death en large large
portions of the conimunity to enrich its members.
It cuts down the population, as Lord ASHBURTON
affirms. It curtails the supply of food, it limits the
demand for and the wages of labour. It plunders
the working-classes to put wealth in the pockets of
the aristocracy. All these things are the very re-
verse of its duties. It holds power to cherish and
protect the people, and is highly criminal if it
shorten a life unnecessarily one day, or inisappro7
priate one stick of the property of the obedient
people. In its conduct we have proof of griev-
ous and deep-seated corruption, in the Legislature.
Of that Legislature the leading priests form a part,
and the Church claims the merit of modelling the
winds and hearts of nearly all the Peers and a great
majority of the Coinmons. They are college-bred
men. The Church, then, is the great parent of
that corruption in the Legislature which has in-
flicted on the people the starvation-law.
That this is mainly due to the Church, and to
the morality it teaches, is confirmed, by observing
that the Church profits by the bread-tax, and
that, partly for its advantage, the bread-tax- is
maintained. Among the lay Peers, and lay land-
owners, we find here and there a FITZWILLIAM,
a RADNOR, a WESTMINSTER, and a CHILDERS,
who are sensible of the iniquity of the Corn-laws
They have emanci!
oinfedthea t c ocr raump.t,
and denounce it accordingly.
pated themselves from theatshreaxltelornmpl
and cotruptaig morality,
bridge, inculcated by the Church. But, as far as
we know, not a single Bishop, not even the good
Bishop of NORWICH, not a Dean, nor an Arch-
deacon, nor a Prebendary, nor a Rector—though
so extremely busy in other political questions,
continually taking the lead over the heads of
laymen—not one beneficed clergyman, that we
are aware of, has denounced that scandalous
violation of all honour and honesty, and all
true religion—the starvation-law. Nay, unless the
clergy are much belied, a great portion of the peti-
tions which have. been sent.to Parliament to main-
tain that iniquitous enactment, has been got up by
their instrumentality. A • more thoroughly selfish
class of men, therefore, does not exist in tile com-
munity ; a class of men who more continually grasp

give a short history of the present controversy. The
Noble Earl adverted to the s_veral plans which had
been suggested to put a stop to the dispute, and then"
detailed his own. As far as we can make that out—
but we reserve it for a more careful examination—the
Noble Earl would place the power of rejecting in the
hands of the Presbytery on any one or more of the com-
municants objecting to the presentee, or of placing him
in the Church in spite of the communicants, if it consi-
dered their objections not sustained, and it approve of
the presentee. From the decision of the Presbytery
the presentee has an appeal to the superior Ecclesi-
astical authority. The Noble Earl expressed himself
sanguine of success, and said the Bill would secure the
independence of the Church.
After some observations from the Duke of Buc-
CLEUGII, the Duke of ARGYLE, the Earl of GALLO-
WAY, the Earl of HADDINGTON, and the Marquis of
BITE, all approving of the Bill ; and a few words
from Viscount MELBOURNE, reserving his opinion, the
Bill was read a first time, and their Lordships adjourned.
In the House of Commons, after a considerable num-
ber of petitions had been presented as usual, Mr. F.
KELLY gave notice of a motion on the 14th of May
for the abolition of the punishment of death for all
crimes except murder.