The Sun.
London, England, 1840-11-03 00:00:00

Pl•-"VriatiL
15 r
Put and that gross injustice must reason, that the priesthood found their dominion on
than ain. end to. LordHILL is not much worse a knowledge which they will not stiffer other men
tueelis Predecessors, aNd he will have still worse to question. If we ask for their warrant, tlpy
of
r:!sors, if
the public neglect the opportunity fer us to the Bible ; and when we would examine
Act nif°lning the Horse. Guards. The Mutiny
arniy
retigsutl.lattecdreovnisci, the Bible, to ascertain if it contain the warrant,
and the government of the they allege we arc told that we cannot possibly in_
principles of justice. terpret it without them, who are its ordained and
inspired interpreters ; and if we interpret it in any
manner different from them—if we see in it
what they do not see, and cannot see in it
what they see—then we are decried as heretics or
as infidels, and as enemies of social order. With
a marvellous impudence they assert that their will,
their self-seeking,their infirmities,and contradictions,
are to be the rules and guides of other men, who
arc to have no will of their own. From the gene-
ral ban of sin which they pronounce against the
human race, they exempt themselves, and claim au-
thority from -,,ossessing a purity which they deny to
all besides.

111 thl

Je primitive condition of society, such as it
1144' exists in New Zealand, or existed in North
la"lea, at
, the time of its discovery, when the
wand 9f "lost every man, from the necessity each
hips I:alder nearly unaided to provide entirely for
trib-esil;f) was aoainst every other, and when every
tiiit,,v,ed ill a condition of almost incessant hos-
pri with every other, it might with some pro-
witsetY he said that society was without union, and
vari ee a heap
of sand. At a somewhat more ad-
Ire :td Period; and a different condition, when the
Was the master of the world, and conquest
in :le foundation of dominion ; when the Baron
held a West, and the Satrap or Paella in the east,
41411 people together by holding them in bondage,
tenec master was exchanged as often as the for-
-444-nl:ver enabled a stronger robber to seize his
to and se murder his men at arms, or induce them
very ire a more victorious chief ; when, from the
kni nature of the dominion, revolt was the rule,
1114,11464
e 4 submission the exception ; when chief
gates war
;be °{ military °n chief, and nations were but aggre -
o te
mili
hordes, society might also be said
W,,ithout union, and as a heap of sand.
At k
and later period, when the several chiefs
Wer uarots ceased to have royal power, and all
tic: reduced under one Sovereign, but while the
tech" and distant dwellers about the land
had fradneed al.nost everything for himself, and
then -1° Or no wants supplied by any other persons
tenii members of hiq own family or village,
thinig little or nothing, and buying little or no-
Litag of the merchant, and caring nothing for
nejiPPaYing rent in kind, and having no con-
-1)4 °Oa or dependencies beyond the squire and- the
.the latter of whom might be any day re-
hit e-a' and the former of whom might any clay sell
egt-n 4,
tiPettY----society might still be said to be with-
-1141.14) and little better than a heap of sand.
ilia in our day, when no man provides exclusively
fentivin linhsistence or his own clothing—when the
fast' er i 3 dependent on the merchant for his break-
for I:41 On the cotton-grower of the United States
the 4111 of Lis garments when the merchant and
trnith3nafacturer, the spinner and the weaver, the
kitie an the shoemaker, the engineer and the
kid tr; the grocer and the banker, the bookseller
ply
ii T. Paper-maker, &c. &c., are all so indissolu-
liceedtlit'ed together by the wonderful system of corn-
Ilk tabour which has grown up in modern times,
othellat one can be injured, or stop his trade, but the
(jet r Elitist feel it, if he do not stop trade too—so-
ltendl 4° longer bears any resemblance to a heap of
if' •It is more like a watch, or a steam-engine,
o( Divine
it be not irreverent to compare it, which is
handcontrivance, to the
proudest work of man's
1144
the is-,evetY part of which is necessary to obtain
teti claire(' result, and the smallest part of which
tr0,k.14 he injured without impeding or stopping the
tifal Ing of the machine. So perfect is the beau-
tetetslsteal of combined labour—which now cc-
(A*l, aktaen into one social union—that it extends
f
kh,tile whole globe, and makes the inhabitants o
.4,031
194%3' New York, and London parts of the same

We can see an excellent reason why the advo-
cates of the State priesthood will not see, and will
not acknowledge that cement of society in division o'
labour individual and territorial, IN hieh we have
brought under notice. They have no part in it.
They neither buy nor sell. They produce
nothing which men desire, and satisfy no
wants of the body and no cravings of the
heart. They are not mambas of that great
industrial league which is gradually knitting together
the whole family of mankind, and, by lessening the
influence of artificial and political distinctions,
contributes to weaken the authority and the utility
of the Church and the State.
If by society we are to understand political
authority—and it is very natural that those who are
nothing, but as they possess political authority,
should seek to confound the two—we must admit
that society is dissolving, and union nearly at end.
In spite of the strenuous efforts of the priesthood
and their allies, society is escaping from their con-
trol, and is growing great and powerful beyond
their reach. The Post and the author it admires
weep and rave in vain. Society as it advances is
squeezing the priesthood out from its ranks, as a
hotly which is no longer wanted, and hence the
desire to stop its growth, and raze our towns.

The Times, Herald, and Co., have not for
some days been eloquent about the non-employ.
meut of ship-keepers, and the miserable economy
of saving a few shillings a-week, which wrapt a
dock-yard in flames. We cannot suppose that the
result of the trial at Sheerness will make the learned
and scientific correspondent of the Times again
take up his pen on the subject, for it is difficult to
see how ship keepers could have been of any use
in giving notice of a fire which must have broken
out before they, according to custom, went on board.
Neither will he, nor will the Herald, we presume,
undertake to inform the public how two ship-keepers,
supposing there had been two on board the Tala-
vera, could have discovered the fire in the bin on
shore, which escaped the notice of the sentinels
and policemen on duty in the dock-yard. It
was a mercy, we think, that there were not
two keepers on board the Talavera, if the
story of the fire originating in a bin be
correct, for the chances are, that then the loss of
life would have been added to the loss of property.
But we will not _ further dwell on a little partisan
folly in our Contemporaries, of which, we believe,
they are by this time heartily ashamed. They
know that all their remarks about economy and two
ship-keepers were made in the most profognd igno-
rance of the matter they were writing about.

IVith
.tttat the most astounding ignorance of these
1414—t at every day fall under notice, and cause a
tilPt ey at New York to affect the trade of
f
the 411 ester, that egregious blunderer, who writes in
tkzegliciner/y Review, and who has proposed to
c‘
11110 our cities, has also the following passage,
toirii We notice, because it has been paraded into
kst toriety by being inserted in the Morning

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS

CITY, TiVELVE O'CLOCK.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MONDA v.—The transac•
Lions in cotton today are 5,000 bags, at steady prices.
Our municipal election has just terminated in the return
of ten Conservatives and Six R.:formers.
LivEaroot. SHARE LIST, Ntv. 2.—Grand Junction
Quarter-shares, new, 281; Great Western half-shares,
45! ; Fifth Shares, 71 ; Liverpool and Manchester half-
shares, 83 ; London and Birmingham, 160 ; south Wes-
tern, 51k. Very little business done in the Share market
to-day.

IJotil the child once more looks up to its parent,
and the State to the
~I,,trA,-. Parent to the State,
4444, and the Church to God, and still as the eye
kilo, through all these stages, it
0 beholds
thatin each
Powera
t 4nd a symbol, and rt presenceety
i cannot exist.
It d'i 114" all other power liales—
Society is union ;. theo
Itsi,:,:e'rr'cat exist at present.
e be no union there is no
lociet °). Many in one.
fine 3') 11(' more than tllieirteh
tossed together ,
htiv, atoms of sand, men are
isreunhioonwin a heap of sand..
1/4 14ti14 in Louses by the chanceb oaf birth
o us 1 n thrown
aut pe
Ncli aheps into large towns,
htli(----11 avarice, or want, or
cyap r;
cien; so-called not
b ounkdi nt gu--
411°:'43:11)1jeel'atu::Iwy•allnsotoffadlleila'gd apartmatter hold them in—as
ker;t4ins, rivers,
IPlittAsenee of a dissolving.and saved from
or seas—or a foreign force, or the
'1114„41, off into innumerabie
tftqL, not because the Church is the centre of their
powerfan;ients of religious.
Nt. 4)4s and duty, but because their interest, or con-
lleit°P ignorance, or indolence, keeps each in
yin,, mam Society, therefore, is gone. It is now
ht° like a long-buried corpse which the air has not
litireaehed, and its lineaments seem perfect and the
Y sound.
Th.
r„, '8 statement, so completely at variance with
of L'''for industrial society, whatever may be said
Politi
tests cal society, never was so united as at pre-
i, ......15 quoted with approbation by the Morn-
:(4l,,;P°'l, which does not, indeed, think the
a44.16P1e of union in society to be utterly dead
gone ,
hecorti. ) but only " sorely shaken, and gradually
bp° ,I,'if More loose, and less to be depended
from this
toll:101i both these writers, proceeding
40. :fitiellY false view of society, for what a small
the r —"y contemptible part of the great whole, is
that
ti, Mere political part—require Church,
tht e Church should have more power, and that
44, Pe°Ple should be more submissive. The Post
The . .
6ft cr Prire ple of the Church,t
theas applied to pulilic
PeopleB are directly the
.oppositesoooree perriollyeei!.liat
Nt,,h,ce
is the only legitimate
Ilcit, ,upon this topriocipilterimatebe a comfortless, dreary,.
GOO, less, demoralising The legitimate source of
11),,er is that puresourc'ec.where there can be no defile-
Oyerit of tyranny or an other error. All rule and stv,y
'lt4 men should be thence derived. Kings and Go-
dittr?,4 of all sorts should be but the instruments,to
legitimate powcr.. 'hey.,,,
thohliairte and apply this. really
"rem :mberin,
Mic;"(1 rule as the Cnure,h! teaches,
'Phis is alone the power
b,11." authority they have..
hilttt It 1.8 noble to exercise—th's is alone the power
II qut dignity to obey. .
the °,lll these writers agree in referring all. power to
ttil qurch, and in declaring that Kings must
t 1.41 all other men conduct themselves as it
scathet' Now, for the word Church readi *lll
1):4e Passages the priesthood—for the
then
Church
that
Nailing but the priesthood—and
ssert-
in:t,Lel4Bs of men arrogantly and impudently
*I .I;at
IN power is derived through them, and can
ti !be Exercised as seems good to them. The
4201,
be no defile-
, ree of power, where there can
great
"'tot ra
A tyranny, or any other error," the
tiilltbe'r and Sustainer of society, has decreed what
pie P°Bl calls " a demoralizing lie," fbr he has-
feaced all Power in the people, who must, there-
the thre' be its legitimate source. What ar
4: ,Priests, or the nobility, or the gen-
-4,1i1l nut portions of the people, who ale so sen-
tole of the true source of power that none of them
t
orlY,fur security on the teaching of the Church, but ,11. the truncheon of the policeman, or the bayone,,,
I,lthe soldier--two numerous classes of the people .
4,:e moral power of the priesthood, if they have
f
physical exerted be exerted through the instrumentality o
that force ; and it is a gross absurdity to deny
cent)-t a far as society is concerned, all power
Itee, ;
'll the People. In accurate thought, and
dirate
, }age, power is nothing, and means
41(iili itig) hut t heir physical strength guided by their
tita-; and there is in society no other power, lei-
`‘' 4te or illeg
itimate, but their physical force.
cannot forget, when we read
those -
passages like
t au We have quoted, claiming for the priesthood
PrernaoY over the State, and over human

Wo have received Mauritius papers to the 25th July'
We quote the following :
" The Commission of the Free Labour Association was
admitted before his Excellency the Governor to demand of
him the same assistance as that given to the Society by his
predecessors. At the same time the plan for immigration,
which we have already noticed, was submitted.
His Excellency, after receiving the Commission with
civility, wished to enter into some explanations which could
not fail to be interesting to the community.
" In the opinion of Sir Lionel Smith, which was gene-
rally looked upon in London at the moment of his depar-
ture, Indian immigration will be allowed to us with a cer-
tain latitude.
Sir Lionel Smith thinks that we shall have some diffi-
culty to surmount the opposition of the Antilles.
The Astrolabe and the Zelee, which arc making a
voyage of circumnavigation, under the command of MM.
Dumont and Urville, are anchored in the road of St.
11 Denis, to the number of five ships of war."
Accounts received from Upper Canada state that in
addition to the survey by Mr. Cull of the harbour and Port
Stanley, on Lake Erie, the Government has directed Mr.
Killaby to report on it also, and it is the intention of the
Governor-General to have the condition of all the harbours
on Lako Erie, and the roads leading from the interior of
them, brought under the notice of the United Legislature
for the purpose of encouraging the trade on the Lake.
Mr. Cull has been ordered to make a survey of Burling-
ton Bay Canal with the view of either enlarging the pre-
sent one or making a new one. Mr. C. commenced his
labours on the 25th ult.
Accounts from Frankfort of the 28th Oct. state the
amount of arrests in that town were forty, the Courier du
Bus Rhine says that the persons arrested arc kept in close
confinement, and that Germany will become, without
doubt, the theatre of new political persecutions.