The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-17 00:00:00

EVENING SUN

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTRRDAY.

GLOBE.—We wonder• whether those who
rule us in the nacre of that ravenous caste whom
nothing will satisfy but prices of the People's
food screwed purposely (Lord Stanley has said
so)-above the rates of the whole world besides-
-we-wonder whether those, who have the bad
courage to rule in us that name, have eyes,
ears, or understandings for the signs of ap-
proaching tempest! Do they know what the
season threatens?—do they know what the minds
of men brood upon'! Are they " preparing their
statistics' perchance, or filling up their commis-
sions of the peace, or quartering their relatives
on the public service—are they warming up tear
stale hash ofsophisti ies for the Landlords' House''
—what, in :Heaven's name, arc they doing,
or thinking of,• in this most perilous state of
the country - Let them assure themselves
that their • old tricks of recrimination, and
cant, and cavil—hat-all the Parliamentary piety
of the Grahams and Gladscones, and al+ the
Parliamentary candour of the Premier, have no
charm kr hunger—that we will have men now,
and not symbols of-this or that creed or class in-
terest—that we will have men who can kel for
inen, and act for them as a nation—and nut
pulitical ar:ificers bent wholly on " building
up" party power.
.The next month or two will
decide whether the men who have built up
this precious fabric will have strength or
virtue to save it from being battered about
their ears—whether the -use to which they
will put their power wiil -be better than the,
means thay employed to gain it—whether, hav-
ing risen by aid of all the monopolies, and all
the prejudices—they will have courage to kick
their ladder—useless for all future purpose—
down from under them! Well they know that
they cannot realise a single hope that was fanned
to raise them—that they dare neither grant the
prayers of INtolerance, nor preserve the integrity
of Monopoly. Perhaps they do not wish to do
either. But what do they mean to do Every
hour of delay is darkening with dangers and dif-
ficulties. We are threatened with an epoch like
that from 'OB to 1800—aggravated by all the sub-
sequent increase of people, and dependence on
commerce. We are threatened with more than
all the privations we have experienced—and less
patience, on the part of the injured interests, than.
was ibrinerly brought to meet them. For now
.the injury is felt to be wilful, and is sharpened
with insult.

STANDARD.—It is pretty manifest that, let
Sir Robert Peel do what he may, he will not
give satisfaction to those whom he has deprived
of the adminisration of the Government. In
October the country was made to ring with
the unjust violence of his changes, because
the Irish Attorney-General preferred his own ne-
phews for Private Secretary and Private As-
sistant, before the persons who had acted for
Mr. Pigot in these several capacities, and
but a few hours since the clamour of
party oppression was again raised, because Lord
De Grey dared to change his medical adviser
and his apothecary—a liberty which every one,
high or low, thinks he has a right to claim.
This' morning, however, the wind shifts,
though without any abatement of its vio-
lence ; and we have the Premier reproached
-for the continuance in office of so many di-
plomatic servants of the late Government,
ex.-y)..:—" Will the Tories be contented that
the miserable upshot of all their ravings
is to be Lord Aberdeen's adoption of the
.same (Whig-Radical) policy carried out by the
same men ?" It is marvellous—the generous care
with which the Whig-Radical Journals seem to
watch over the interests of the Conservative Go-
vernment. All their anxiety about the appoint-
ment in Mr. Blackburne's office respected the
tendency of such appointments to alienate
the Roman Catholics ; and, now they are sorely
distressed lest the Conservatives (whom they
call Tories, but who are the true successors of the
Whigs of 1688) should take umbrage at the per-
severance of the Government, as far as possible,
in the foreign policy of its predecessors, and even
in the diplomatic appointments. The intelligent
portion of the Irish Roman Catholics have, how-
ever, been unable, and are unwilling, to extract
insult or oppression from the appointment of
the Messrs. Webb. by their uncle, and the Con-
servative party will not be more unreasonable.
We know that the foreign policy of a country
cannot change on every change of Ministers. Our
relations with foreigners must be placed upon a
tooting of some security if the world is to enjoy
the blessings of peace ; but they would rest upon
no such footing should every new Ministry, in
every country, feel at liberty to recast those re-
lations. Hence the mischief of a bad Ministry
often outlives its authors, and if there be any thing
Ainilty in the foreign policy of the country, it is
the Melbourne Ministry sinning in its grave
that ought to answer fur it.
COURIER.— The pretensions of " The
Church" in Scotland are now coming out in bold
and prominent relief. It is contended by the
Churchmen, now in the ascendant, that the Ge-
neral Assembly is a " Court of Christ," inde-
pendent of, and superior to, any civil judicatory
of the country; and its right, de jure divino, to
enact whatever laws it sees proper, and to
enforce them on the ministers, elders, and mem-
bers of the establishment, under any penalties
which it may deem fit to impose, is now openly
declared and advocated by Dr. Candlish and Mr.
Cunningham ! To wrest from the Government
a legislative sanction to these claims our clerical
"agitators" are now organising the people of
Scotland into what are called "Church Defence
Associations;" and almost every parish over the
country is about to glory in one of these affiliated
societies ! It is very true, that the conduct of these
Churchmen in their application to her Majesty's
Ministero to sanction these claims, is not very con-
sistent with the high source to which they trace
-them; and we are occasionally presented with
very strange anomalies in the course they are pur-
suing. At a meeting lately held of the congre-
gation of St. George's church, Edinburgh, Dr.
Candlish, in alluding to the particular point
of settling ministers in vacant parishes, took
the opportunity of sayino. that " the Church"
would be content with'. nothing short of a
legislative enactment, providing that when
the majority of a parish shall pronounce
a presentee " unacceptable," his presentation
shall be null and void. In one word, " the Veto,
the whole Veto, and nothing but the Veto," is
now the war-cry of the Non-Intrusion party ; and
" Presbyterian emancipation" from the yoke of
patronage, and the control of the Civil Courts in
s i
all things, which the Churchpleased to taboo
as spiritual, is to be forced upon Sir Robert Peel,
as was that of time Catholics in Ireland from poli-
tical degradation, by an overawing display of
physical force ready to seize by terror what may
not be granted to clerical clamour ! -