The Sun.
London, England, 1840-07-08 00:00:00

dence have they renewed their insults, and
m main- I
main-
tained their oppression, till the multitude seem al-
most ready to arise in wrath and sweep, not the insti-
tutions, and the petty, paltry contrivances to keep
men slaves—not our political machinery, but
those who contrive it and benefit by it—out of the
country, and out of existence. We call on the aris-
tocracy to read and ponder over the signs of the
times—over the opinions of the people, and over
the fate of other proud aristocracies.

The Tories have fallen on times of tribulation
Their humiliation is great. The day on which the
Peers refused to take Dublin out of the Corporation
Bill, and on which Lord STANLEY withdrew his
Registration Bill, was a black day in the history of
the faction. In both cases Mr. O'CONNELL
gained a triumph. Lord WYNFORD'S motion and
Lord STANLEY'S Bill were equally aimed at him
and the power of his friends, and his success is
great in proportion to the vast exertions made in
both Houses and by the press to ensure his annihi-
lation.
A Learned Counsel wasbrought over from Dublin
on purpose to fight the battles of that Corporation.
He was heard at the bar of the House of Peers at
great length, and completely buried the almost
extinct Sir CHARLES WETHERELL under
his vast and brawling oratory. His speech was
published, and he and it were puffed ff by the
Tory journals as more than mortal. It was said to
have completely convinced a great number of Tory
Peers that the Bill was a detestably bad Bill, an
odious Bill, an abominably unjust Bill, and
was sure to be rejected. It was even stated
that this remarkable oration, followed by
the pungent articles of the Tory journals,
had convinced the Duke of WELLINGTON that
Dublin ought to he excluded. On Monday, how-
ever, the Duke threw overboard the Dublin Cor-
poration, and threw Mr. BUTT and the whole host
of lying Tories overboard with it, voting to retain
Dublin in the Bill, and adopting the Marquis of
NORMANBY'S statement, that Mr. BUTT 's elo-
quent pleading wanted the charm of truth and the
support of facts. It was overpoweringly noisy, his
Grace implied, but when the stunning effect was
passed it turned out to be mere stage thunder, very
loud, but equally harmless. So Dublin was re-
tained in the Bill, and many Tories will " stain their
souls," and sacrifice the Protestant cause by voting
for the third reading of a measure which the
Standard says they describe in conversation as
everything which is unjust and detestable.
But heavy as was the blow given to the faction
in the Lords, it was light compared to the blow
which their lately acquired and highly prized
ally, Lord STANLEY, dealt them in the Commons.
For months they have been agitating the country with
their bellowings against the fictitious voters of Ire-
land. The morals of the people, they said, were
corrupted by perjury, the State was endangered by
a flagitious system of personation and false swear-
ing, all other business was storped to allow Lord
STANLEY to carry forward his measure to correct
these enormities, the whole Tory host assembled
night after night with most extraordinary assiduity,
an-d
it was loudly and repeatedly declared that the
State would not be safe unless his Bill became a law.
Yu( question (says the Post) was one of morals, or it
was a worthless question. Is it fit, or is it not that fraud
and peijury shall bear sway in the elections of Members
of Parliament in Ireland, and materially affect, therefore,
the composition of the Imperial Legislature? This was
the question, and it was one, as it appears to us, for an
honest and honourable national party to fight out.
But all at once when the Tories were within
reach, as they supposed, of victory, when the
State was to be saved, perjury punished, and
morality vindicated, their gallant leader, with all
the treachery, they may perhaps say of a Whig,
or, as we should say, of a STANLEY, turned
round, gave up the Bill, and slunk away till next
Session from the noble task of protecting the public
virtue, and restoring the Tome to office. That
was a bitter disappointment. In the Lords only
Dublin, but in the Commons morality and high-
flown principle were thrown overboard. If the
Irish registries be what the Times has described
them—if the Bill were what its ad% ocates said—
there could be no middle course, it should have
been fought out to the last. The Post says "it
would have been infinitely more advisable to urge
forward the measure which the Noble Lord had
introduced, leaving to Ministers and their governor,
Mr. O'CONNELL, the odium of rejecting it."
More advisable I—it was required by a decent re-
spect to reputation. To bring in such a Bill, sup-
port it on such grounds, and then withdraw it as it
were a Turnpike Road Bill, was as plain a.con-
fession of political roguery as ever was made.
It was a pleading of guilty to the charge of
mischievous faction at the bar of the country. We
are not surprised at the honest Tories, if there be
any, and the hungry Tories, who are numerous,
being excessively angry with Lord STANLEY for
the disgrace he has burdened them with, and for
the disappointment of the great hopes with which
his vigorous assaults on the Ministers, his racy and
unsparing abuse of men—so like the Times, and
so unlike Sir R. PEEL—had inspired them.
Monday was indeed a fatal day for the Tories.

The accounts received from different quarters of
the declining condition of the city of Bath, give
rise to melancholy reflections. Not many years
ago it was the most fashionable and best frequented
place of public resort in England, admired above
every other for the beauty of its situation, the mag-
nificence of its buildings, and the elegant amuse-
ments provided for the numerous visiters that yearly
frequented the place. Now it is all but the picture
of desolation. The theatre, that was formerly the
nursery for the best actors on the London stage,
has been long deserted, and is now closed ; and all
other kinds of rational and elegant amusement have
shared the same fate. A spirit of delusion has
seized the misguided people ; this has been encou-
raged for political or other worldly purposes by the
narrow-sighted and illiberal clergy, and the far-
famed city of Bath is now only remarkable for
bigotry, intolerance, and fanatical meetings. The
following is a picture of the place drawn by an in-
habitant in a letter to the Mayor :
" It has been the constant practice of the clergy of this
town for a long time past, but particularly more recently
by their preaching and exhortations, to suppress th 3 various
amusements of the place, and indeed, so comprehensive
have been their denunciations, that scarcely an entertain-
ment of a public character of which the inhabitants were
wont to partake, has escaped; concerts, bells, races, thea-
trical exhibitions, and even horticultural shows, have each
of them in turn been the subjects of clerical vengeance
and pulpit anathematization. The clergy of this city, of
nearly all denominations, but particularly those of the esta-
blished church, have been most unremitting in their exhor-
tations to their various flocks to discountenance these en.
tertainments ; nor have threats been spared to back and
influence their entreaties to this end : the terrible condem.
nation to eternal punishment itself, has been held out as
the consequence to all those who may give these scenes of
pleasure their countenance."
To what a state of blind submission to ghostly
tyranny must people be reduced who can be influ-
enced by such impious denunciations, to act con-
trary to the dictates of common sense, and commit
the suicidal act of scaring away those classes that
formerly were the main support of the place.
While railroads are giving new life to every princi-
pal town throughout the kingdom, and a line is
fast extending towards Bath, the same baneful in-
fluence of these Churchman is actively exerted
to render the greatest modern improvements of no
avail, and to destroy for ever the prosperity of the
city. We fear the evil is already completed beyond
remedy. A fashionable place never recovers from
such a taint, and Bath, as the writer of the letter
justly states, will share the fate of every other
place which has been sufficiently unfortunate to
harbour a large body of professionally religious
zealots. She must sink under the patronage of
her religious Alinistecs, and rival, in poverty and
degradation, the ill-fated cities of Wells, Can-
terbury, Winchester," and he might have added
another more convincing instance still—Rome,
swarming with Monks and Clergy, abounding in
Churches, almost without a theatre, and sinking
every year into more hopeless poverty and decay.

The Paris Journals, of Monday, state that on
that evening the English Commissioner, Mr.
PORTER, was to set out for London with the Com-
mercial Treaty as proposed to be amended by the
French Government. The National, whose
hatred of England is inextinguishable, is, of
course, delighted at the postponement of a treaty
which could only benefit France by being corre-
spondingly advantageous to this country. Like
the envious man in the fable, the National would
willingly consent to France losing one eye, pro-
vided the loss would entail total blindness upon
Great Britai►►. The French Republican organ
overlooks the fact, that the commercial treaty
would especially benefit the working classes in

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 1840.

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