The Sun.
London, England, 1840-09-11 00:00:00

!Relit 'INN MORNING PAPRIII OP TPIIII DAY.
(From the Morning Chronicle.)
It was not our intention to have offered any remarks
on the recent elevation of Dr. Shuttleworth to the
bench of Bishops. But as the Times, in an article
professing to be " from a Correspondent," has drawn
from the appointment an inference that there must be
some foundation for the rumoured political coalition,
and the statement, if uncontradictod, may do mischief,
we have also availed ourselves of a correspondent,
" Oxoniensis," who, in a communication which will be
found in another column, states that Dr. Shuttle•vorth
owes his promotion to the friendship of Lord Holland,
and nothing else. He states further, that Dr. Shuttle-
worth had acted as a tutor in Lord Holland's family,
and his Lordship had already shown a sense of his
services by giving him the living of Foxley. The
Times says that Dr. Shuttleworth is a Tory, and
invidiously names several individuals well known
to the country from their principles and reputation as
accomplished divines, who had strong claims on the
Government. We should be deceiving our readers
if we were to say that the appointment of Dr. Shuttle-
worth bad given satisfactitin to the Liberals at Oxford,
or is calculated to strengthen the Government. Besides
theological attainments and private worth, a Government
is no doubt bound to look in its appointments to the
support which it may receive from votes in the House
of Lords. We believe the Premier is really desirous
of exercising the patronage of the Church honestly
and fairly, and we know that the two appointments
in particular, to the see of St. David's and the
Deanery of Durham, gave the highest satisfaction.
It is impossible, however, to give him praise for the
appointment of Dr. Shuttleworth ; for, though the votes
of that Prelate may not be in accordance with some
memorable acts of his life, and more especially his sign-
ing the petition, during the short administration of Sir
Robert Peel, praying the Right Hon. Baronet to re-
main in office, still we question whether Governments
are justified in the indulgence of hopes of support on
such precarious grounds. We have said enough to jus-
tify the abandonment of our intention to remain silent
on the subject of this appointment. We arc unable to
state that Dr. Shuttleworth is not a Tory ; but the
facts we have stated will, we think, satisfy the public
that the inferences drawn by the Times from his appoint-
ment are without foundation.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING CHRONICLE.
Sir,—A strange article (it is to be presumed as a sort
of feeler) appeared in the Times of to-day, under the con-
venient mark, " from a Correspondent," relative to the
selection of Dr. Shuttleworth to the see of Chichester.
It is extraordinary that, if the speculations contained in it
had the slightest possibility attaching to them, the policy
of Ministers should so suddenly have changed within the
last few days, when they appointed a decided Whig to the
deanery of Durham, and strengthened the bench by the
nomination to St. David's of perhaps a still more decided
Whig, in the person of that eminent scholar and liberal
divine, Connop Thirwall.
Here we have indulged in a smile at the ignorance (if
it be real) of Printing-house-square in these matters. Dr.
Sbuttleworth owes his promotion to the friendship of
Lord Holland, and nothing else. He might bare been an
anti- Puseyite, and been on Peel and Wellington's list till
the day of doom, before be got a mitre from the Govern-
ment, unless be had acted as tutor in the family of that
excellent and influential Nobleman, who had, previously
to this last instance, shown a sense of his services by giv-
ing him the living of Foxley. The new Bishop and his
noble patron were always understood to be of the same
politics, and it has never been clearly comprehended why
this step has been so long delayed. The Doctor being, it
must be owned, upon a fair average of the tutors, who
have been equally successful, unquestionably a respectable
and producible man. I am, etc.
New College, Sept. 10. OXONIENSIS.
(From the Times.)
The accounts which reach us from various parts of
France strongly confirm the opinion wo have fre-
quently expressed as to the maintenance of a good
understanding between the two countries ; and we
are happy to find that, in giving our neighbours credit
for some of that sobriety and knowledge of their true
interests which ought to prevail in a civilized com-
munity, we did them more justice than the inflamma-
tory leaders of their own metropolitan press. The fluc-
tuations of the funds would convey a very inaccurate
notion of the real commercial state of the country,
to which indeed they hardly bear a closer resem-
blance than that which exists between a gambler on
the Bourse and a substantial merchant of Nantes or
Havre de Grace. The foreign trade of England is so
far more extensively ramified than that of any con-
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mercantile enterprise is checked necessarily produce
a more decided and disastrous effect in this country
than in any other. Accordingly, in the present in-
stance, although all the warlike preparations have been
on the side of France, and all the pacific assurances en
that of England, we have little doubt, on comparing
the mercantile observations of competent judges in
both countries, that it is we who have suffered the
most in reality from apprehensions which no one in
England seriously entertained. But, setting apart the
influence of Paris, of the Gevernment, of the Parisian
press, and of some of the more warlike provinces of
the north and east of France, we End reason to believe
that in the bulk of the nation the general feeling is as
pacific as it is amongst ourselves. Even in the army, '
men who are eager for the distinction and chances of
active service in their profession do not affect to over-
look the calamity which such a war would bring upon
the community, and upon themselves as members
of that community. They avow that to find
themselves opposed to England on the most im-
portant European question which has arisen for
many years, disparages the credit of their cause,
and greatly diminishes tKeir chance of ultimate
success. Instead of misconstruing the opinion
which prevails amongst us as to the necessity of
reducing the Pacha of Egypt to his true position, the
French are becoming more and more aware that the real
insult and the real evil were inflicted, not by England
or by Englishmen, but by the Russian contrivers of the
treaty of the 15th of July, and by the Russian enemy
of the alliance of this country with France. The French
Government has undoubtedly availed itself as much as
was possible, and rather more than was prudent, of the
circumstances and the spirit to which that treaty
gave rise. The position of M. Thiers was far from
secure ; be was distrusted by a portion of his own
supporters. Louis Philippe himself probably was not
sorry to have an opportunity of declaring that his
love of peace did not extend to an unbecoming
dread of war ; and his dynasty was strengthened by the
moral support of the bulk of the community, whilst
the army was increased and its resources improved. It
is understood that one of the first measures brought
before the Chambers next session will be the plan for
erecting fortresses to protect and to command the
capital : and it is thought that, under a threat of fo-
reign aggression, the Government may carry the Bill,
which was rejected some years ago, when the fortifica-
tions were proposed af a security for the internal tran-
quillity of Paris. The best answer to these proposals
will be contained in the treaty of commerce with
England, which will, as we hope, be laid before the
Chambers at the same time. Let France coatinue to
enlarge her ports, to improve her internal navigation,
to increase her produce and her consumption ; the
bonds which are thus interwoven between civilized na-
tions arc not to be severed by the intrigues or the
threats of rude despots or military powers.
(From the Morning Herald.)
In the Morning Chronicle of yesterday, there ap-
peared an article en the present state and temper of
the working classes in France and England—an article
displaying a strange mixture of knowledge and of igno-
rance in regard to the subject treated of. The writer
in the Chronicle commences by adverting to those feelings
of deep discontent with their condition, which pervade
the working classes in France, in England, and in the
United States. He then observes, " the evil appears
to be incident to the present state of social progress ;
and it demands the best efforts of legislatures to avert
the convulsions, of which it threatens to be the har-
binger." To allege that the evil in question, is " inei.
dent to the present state of social progress," is, we sub-
mit, to advance nothing definite on the subject. The
real question which arises out of the admitted facts of
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direction,progress be effected on sound principles ? The
legitimate facts stated by Chro-
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are
disposed
age, despite its " march-of-mind" principles of progres-
sion, is not so wise, nor so happy as other ages have
been; far less distinguished than the present by
boasting and self-glorification. The actual state of feel-
ing amongst certain sections of the labouring classes is,
in some respects, truly enough described by the Chro-
nicle. " The cry is not for more freedom, but better
wages. The attempt is to barricade out the middle
men from industrial interference, and not the Orleans
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them as an oppression. They want toil to be paid, and
paid
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entitled.
The movement, in short, resolves itself, as we
stated yesterday, into an anti-property movement. The
Chronicle is, however, to a certain extent, in error in its
description of the character of that movement. It is
not true, for instance, excepting in a certain sense, that
any ports n of either French or English workm, n
" claim the same wages for all." The workmen who