The Sun.
London, England, 1847-07-16 00:00:00

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LONDON. FRIDAY, JULY 16, 1847.

Religious intolerance seems to be the weapon with
which the enemies of the popular movement will en-
deavour to conquer the Liberal candidates. Dis-
tinctly and emphatically we would warn them
that that weapon will prove nothing better than a
dagger of lath. The bait thrown out to the multi-
tude savours not more sweetly than the monster
ALTEIA.N—" it hath an ancient and a fish like smell."
ounce of 2ivet, good apothecary!" Of all
electioneering humbugs, that in which a political
faction strives to come oil' victorious by raising a sec-
tarian clamour is the arrantest. Nothing is so
enormously hypocritical in purpose, so barefaced in
protestation, so scurrillous in abuse, or so slanderous
in self-defence, as that spirit of partisanship which
disguises its own preternatural immorality under the
garb of Religion. But, effective as this system was at
one time from the consummate skill with which it
was carried into operation, no min of common. sense
•trembles at it now-a-days. The lacquer has worn
off, the cloak is threadbare, the clap-traps that were
onee reveredas the utterances of inspiration are now
derided as the babblings of idiotcy, or the_ fustian
of cant.

Slander, we have already said, is an habitual cha-
racteristic of these political panegyrists of sanctity.
We speak not at hazard or at random. No, we re-
peat it—slander is one of their habitual charac
teristios. Sir WILLIAM 1110LESWORTII appears before
the electors of Southwark as an advocate of civil and
religious liberty ; he is attacked as an Infidel.
A copy of HOBBES honest old syllogistic
HonnEs, of Malmesbury, one of the most
astute of our philosophical thinkers—is pulled out of
some very orthodox gentleman's bookcase, edited
years ago by Sir WILLIAM MOLESWORTH, therefore
Sir WILLIAM MoLEswoa-rii is accused of being an
Infidel ! Mr. ROEBUCK has battled bravely for the
people upon the same principles of civil and religious
liberty during some fifteen years; Mr. ROEBUCK
appeals again to his constituency at Bath upon the
Something must be done, think
same principles.
the opponents of religious toleration, to be rid of a
man, of such an intolerable consistency. Mr. ROE-
mics is declared to be a
Free-thinker, a Deist, and
very nearly ar. Atheist— but not quite. It is recol-
lected that long ago the Hon. Gentleman protested
against the practice of teaching children of tender
years those mysteries of ethics which puzzle the
brains even of hirsute sages. The enemies of hetero-
doxy, however, see nothing extravagant in drilling
the data of metaphysics into the brain of an infant
just as unconcernedly as an agriculturist would his
seed-potatoes into a moorland. But Mr. ROEBUCK
does, and therefore Mr. ROEBUCK is aspersed as a
Free-thinker ! The Right Hon. Baronet the Member
for Tamworth deems it advisable that there should
be a continued endowment to Alaynooth, in
order that the principal seminary of a portion of the
Mutat Kingdoms so important as Ireland, should
bare at leut srAtta ir!tenticrn- decency, .were.

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