The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-30 00:00:00

PUBLIC orxririori:-.

The Times relates several revolting particulars respect-
ing the treatment to which paupers are subjected in the
workhouse at Seven Oaks; and after observing that their
health has been sacrificed " to the maintenance of the
prohibitory orders of the Poor-law Commissioners," goes
on to state that—" In February all the children in the
house, of both sexes (except two or three infants) had the
itch; about a dozen had bad feet and chilblains, with the
bones of their toes protruding, in consequence of neglett.
On the 29th of April Mr. Adams reported to the Board
that there were then in the house 78 boys and 94 girls
and infant children; that all the boys had enlargement
of the neck, and 42 had likewise goitres; that of the girls
and infants, 91 had enlarged glands at the back of the
neck, and 63 also goitres. Mr. Harris, the present
medical officer, states, that in June there were 26
boys and 52 girls ill with goitres ;' and
almost the same number, though there v"-s
then Duly
n improvement among the boys. In -
.. when, the hok.:€e heihg
harvest-time was coming on, and _agust (just when
almost empty of able-he-P.
accommodation ~ ~uied men, additithial temporary
had a1m0,.• ~as afforded to the children) the disease
Mr. disappeared, In answer to a question from
. .i.ufnell, Mr. Harris observed, that ftferenee to
his private practice, glandular disellses were much more
numerous in the house than out of # ; ' and to another
questioner replied, that of course a crowded state of
any house must be pernicious to health.' "—These are
crying evils that should be at once remedied ; the wonder
is, how they have been so long permitted to exist without
a rigid investigation,
The Post has a leading article oh I.llb stilkitet of Lord
John Russell's reply to thecolhplithentary address lately
presented to him by the inhabitant's of Plymouth, in the
course of which our Contemporary makes the following
remarks :—" The allusion to the repeal of the Roman
Catholic disabilities is peculiarly unfortunate. The Duke
of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel changed their
course upon the Roman Catholic question as Lord
Melbourne and Lord John Russell have changed
theirs upon the question of the Corn-law. The differ-
ences between the circumstances of the two cases
are only these—the former statesmen did not change
when they were on the eve of being turned out"—
'The difference between the two changes is just this
The Tories changed on the subject of Catholic emanci-
pation from expediency ; the Whigs changed on the
subject of
adopter the Corn-law from conviction. The latter
an altered system of policy from the force of
"7;,asoning and observation ; the former, because they
knew that otherwise they could not maintain
themselves in power. , As far as Sir Robert Peel is con-
cerned; he took special care not to change his views of
the Catholic question, till his great rival—we should
rather say his immeasurable superior—Mr. Canning, was
dead, though the necessity for a change was quite as
obvious during the closing years of this stateman's life,
as after his death.

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The Herald, speaking of the attempts of the Puseyites
to have an 'Oxford Professor of Poetry of their own, re-
marks as follows :—" How much Puscyism has already
spread by means of poetry, is well known to all who have
read the writings of .I‘ll. Keble himself, the most amiable
of men, and the ' Tom Moore' of Puseyites. If the
ladies are to be made Puseyites, it must be done by
hymns to altars and candlesticks—by aspirations to the
Virgin, and by addresses to female saints and martyrs.
The ' Lyra Poetica' must be attuned to the notes of
r. Williams, whilst the ' Lyre Logica' remains in all
its dissonance, to be scraped by Archbishop King:and
Archbishop Whateley, with an occasional dirge -from
Messrs. Newman and Pusey.. We call upon the clergy
of the entire kingdom, thprefo;e44iot to allow this con-
test to be decided by the rotes .i'l
_the resident members
of the UniversityAu .
t to: remember that the chair of
Poetry at Oxford id,in fact, the4air of Puseyite theo-
logy. Should they: obtain- tliat chair—what, between
their poetry and their logic, they. will cajole not only
the University but the ctiqUttelfAtot of the principles
of our Protestant Iterotuiaiiol;444Pi'tis possible they may
eventually cajole uoSit Oplio4lielief)Df all religion."—
A Puseyite poet is a%vogintradit4o3llo we cannot under-
stand. The mind o i',l.lle:Onefiaedirect, open variance
with that of the oth i.; The Pii*it#e.is for keeping the
f
human intellect in apinS; the;:.tiOq is for allowing it to
expatiate, boldly and linftittecrip*„tle wide realms of
thought and imaginatiell;' -74,:Weyito cannot soar'
above ceremonial obsttrAiNiio(orn-out common-
places; the poet caning OckeilitOt ailing, unless he
have' the utmost freedaiti!cifliAlg t';).?A Puseyite Pro-
fessor of Poetry! Wits.;evdi' atiythil4g so preposterous,
so contradictory ? We ShOtild just :as soon think .of
making a stoker to a steam-engine ari Oxford Professor
of Poetry I

The faowing is from the Chronicle :—" In the high
opinion entertained by all Liberal politicians of Lord
Eliot's character we entirely toncur. If all Tories
thought like him, tete would not be much to say against
the party t if all acted with the integrity which he has
ittrariably display with "respect to Irish affairs, the
rule of the Tories ilipuld be no, grunt calamity to Ireland.
But it is precisely became we think him the best man of
his party that we th.tolt hitt. appointment was the very
worst. Ho has not JO independence of his party that
violent partisans enjoy e- Hinaaanot net liberally in reli-
ance on the confidence;jof bigots. He goes to Ireland
with his Irish policy 1 old; of peculiar suspicion in
the eyes of all the Irish • supporters of the Ad-
ministration of which he is a member. He must
have found by this time that he has not yet succeeded in
winning from O'Connell the confidence of the Irish
people ; and he must surmise that it will take him many
a day to do so. Not trusted by the Irish people, he can
only full bkek on the Orangemen. He must earn their
favour by his acts ; he must show that he has not those
dangerous Liberal tendencies of which he is suspected."
—Lord Eliot is placed Just now in a false position, and
the time is not far distant when he will find out his mis-
take in accepting the delicate office of Irish Secretary to
an avowedly Orange Government,. At present, he is
looked on with a wary, distrustful'eye both by Tc;y and
Liberal, and cannot stir a-Step, either to the right or
left, without diving cause of offence.
We aub3tun some observations from the Dublin
Evening Post on Earl be Grey's system of policy :
"With resputt to his officials, from his Secretary down
agents, and, above all, his press, this Nobleman,
we repeat it, is most unfortunate. Mystified and cajoled
by those around him, he speedily became their tool,
while, poor simple gentleman, he thought he was acting
the master. Vowing and promising, and almost swear-
ing, either with his own proper lips, or vicariously
through the delicate organs of his poor Secretary, that
his administration in Ireland should be a pattern article,
one of his first steps was the appointment of one of the
most notorious and offensive partisans in the kingdom to
the office of Confidential Adviser. From that moment
the difficulties of Lord De Grey commenced."
The following remarks appear in the Cambrian :
" Two principles at the present moment are agitating
the country, namely, the principle of Conservatism and
that of Progress. If the former should triumph, the
people, bowed down by the iron hand of monopoly and
feudality, exhausted, like an inorganic material mass,
for the profit and pleasure of the few, have no other
hope, as it appears to us, than to sink down into the
condition of the Chinese, or to bury beneath the grave
the burden of their wretchedness."

Speeking of the necessity of union among the people,
the Bolton Free Pres.c says —" The people have good
reason to be jealous of the middle classes, but they may
carry this jealousy too far. It is only by gradual ad-
vances that an effectual union of our divided political
parties is to be obtained. If the fair, and perhaps, at
first, only partial overtures, of a portion of tho middle
classes, are to be scornfully rejected by the people, that
union in which our common strength consists will be
impossible. And, let it be remembered that there must
be two parties to the grand desideratum of a Political
Union, which is to tell on our monopolising, aristocrati-
cal Legislature."

The Dundee Chronicle remarks, with reference to the
recent spread of incendiarism—" Whilst these fires are
embarrassing the Government, the Government is em-
barrassing the people. The people are becoming more
restless and discontented, and, we may add, disaffected
towards the Government. Even men who supported the
Tories at the late election, are tired of waiting for the
benefits expected from the Tory Ministry. It is easy,
during strong party excitement, to shout for the Tories ;
but that excitement which prevailed during the election
has assed away, and the badneos of times, coupled
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IVIONEY—TAADE—COMMEIR,CE.
The Gosport branch of the London and South Wes-
tern Railway was opened on Saturday last. At the din-
ner given on the occasion, it was stated that the journey
from Gosport to London could now be performed in
three hours and a half, and that 15,000 persons on one
side the harbour, and 60,090 on the other, would be be-
nefitted by the railway lh their trade and commerce.
The trades of Glasgow held a meeting in the City
Hall, in refi:rence to the strike of the masons at the
Houses of Parliament, last Tuesday. The conduct of
Allen was severely reprobated, and a committee ap-
pointed to watch over the interests of the operative
cla!se9-, to be convened when requisite.
At Bristol, within the last few weeks, several hundred
hands have been discharged from the yards of the ship-
builders, engineers, glass-works, and other factories. One
large house in the glass trade has its warehouse full of
goods, upon which duty to the amount of 20,0001. has
been paid, but can find no outlet for them. Another house
in the same trade has stopped altogether twelve weeks,
but they still pay the men half wages. The shipping
trade, too, of the port was never known in so deplorable
a state.

STA:MT/CO.
The expatriation caused by the Corn-laws will be
evident from the subjoined figures. From 1821 to 1831
the number of emigrants was 209,230, or 20,923 per
annum: from 1832 to 1839 (both'inolusive) the number
was 529,247 or 66,155 per annum, an increase of more
than 3to 1. But the latest and worst return was in the
last year 1840. which showed the enormous number of
87,346, or nearly one-fifth of the whole increase of the
population during that period.

ECCtEgt4„taridA7e;
Distress warrants• Welt last Week issued tigttifig tt
nutuber of Ott inhabitants of Westbury, Wilts, for re-
fusing to pay Church-rates; and the articles seized were
to he sold at the Liopeo Ali:Asti Sattfrdhy, Aniting
others were h small copper saucepai4 a tea-kettle, a great.
coatl .and a family Bible: Who sidle the Bible ? "
should he the t/..y tht Vatehire Dissentek
Ott Vit ednesday the Presbytery. of
,Edinburgh made
long harangues on the baSe Of Mr: Brant;, ninister of
South Leith palish, charged by the ikon-ititflitinists
with the offence of receiving " the bread and. win pie-
tended to be consecrated" ft oiii (Ito bt it dePoeed
StrathlAie tuihitttf. is 3 a majority of 31 to ii the
iiftsbytery appointed a committee to deal with Mr.
Grant: The minority dieented, and appealed to the
Synod., And Mr, tralit a the .4ittie lithe intithated that
had the committee been appointed,..he would not have
submitted to their authtriti, °"War to the knife" is
now the.ttAte,:hWeiiil Lein sides.
ilittiorp's conversion was gradual. As soon as
his opinions began to receive a tinge of the Tractarian
school, his sertnbris by degrees became less and less even-
tplical) till lie, one by one, adopted the decorations 1.-
(.01311,..ended by the Oxford school of choristers, robed in
white, used incense, massive candles, bells, &c.