The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-21 00:00:00

school, yet for twenty years the Mastership has been
vested in Mr.. T. 'Tuffield,- whnhas the entire control of
the boy s; and I have been assured by this respectable in-
dividuel
,that. the allusion which was ever made to
the Subject of the petition within the walls of the school
we.* a passing question proposed by. him to one of his
pupils, whether it was true that he had signed the docu-
ment alluded to. The boy, who does not appear more
than ten years old, replied that he had done so, and fur-
ther stated that a brother, fourteen years of age, was the
party that indneed him. This I have had Verified by the
child hiinself,'arid therefore, however far it may go to ex-
pose the, absurdity of that, proceeding,.it goes eqnally, far
to show the absurdity and acrimony. of the Radical fac-
tion, who reeort to such expedients for the promotion of
their degraded purposes.
1 am credibly 'wormed that Sir Robert Peel, with his
usual promptitude in the despatch of business, has writ-
, tento the Rev. Mr. Savage, with a view to a full investi-
gation and exposure of the facts. In the meantime lam
in a position to assert that, pntil within the last few days,
there has not been one boy expelled the school ; and the
cases which have more recently occurred arose entirely
from the negligence and bad conduct of the pupils. There
is, however, one fact which cannot be deplored too
I deeply... The harangues of Arland have produced ire
I the minds of many of the lower classes a feeling of
os-
affection Which, until now, was never experieentz:d in the
borough. This is more remarkable among roe recipients
of Sir Robert!S bounty than any otbee'i class of people.
So mach is this the case, that tine-ebers of the boys have
within the last few weeks erppeared to forget tne vela
tionship which they stand to their master, and all
these cases have been followed up by insolence on the
part u the parents. Mr. Taffield assuree me that never
during the Whole period of his mastership has the spit it
oI insubordination shown itself to such a pitch, and the
parents sceni to justify the assumption, by saying that,
If Sir Robert turned them out, Aclanct would take

them in."
It i 5 quite true; therefore, as Mr. ACT.AND
has. inlopmed'the public, that the PEELS have
established a school at Taanworth, in which

children are not only educated, but clothed and
fed and equally true that the electors are li-
a,ble,ta have their votes iufiuenced by the educa-

tion they can obtain for their children. It is
not contradicted that the preservation of the
school depends upon a PEEL being returned for
the borough ; and as that assertion has been
made by Mr. ACLA ND, whose " mis-statements"
were bcfbre the writer, and as two writers have

undertaken to correct them, it must be assumed
that the fact is as he has stated. 17either is it

contradicted in the letter that Sir ROBERT
PEEL wrote to Mr. SAVAGE. It further appears,

that though the Rev. Mr. SAVAGE never spoke
to the boys on the subject of the Tamworth me-
morial, that Mr. TuFPIELD, the actual
master of the school, did, and no doubt,
in speaking of that, made it apparent that
it was offensive to Sir R. PEEL for any person to
sign the memorial. We hold that letter, there-
fore, to confirm Mr. ACLAND'S statements in
every point except one. It was not Mr. SA 'AGE
who spoke to the boys, but Mr. TUFFIELD. Mr.
ACLAND was misinformed as .to the individual,
but not as to the deed.

It further appears that Sir R. PEEL has writ-
ten to Mr. SAVAGE with a view to the investiga-
tion of the facts, and Mr. SAVAGE'S letter, pro-

bably in answer to Sir R. PEEL, was published

on Tuesday. When. the Premier has got the
case dressed up entirely to his satisfaction, we
shall probably have an official report on it. We
learn with great satisfaction, front the conclnd-

in, paragraph of the letter, that Mr. ACLAND has,
by his exposures, made the Tamworth electors

ashamed of their degradation. They and their
children are becoming disobedient, and are no
longer to be bribed into slavery even by the ad-
vantages of a charity school. Political cunning
will, in the long-run, be as effectually exposed
as the more open and hardened knavery. Mr.
ACLAND, in our judgment, triumphs completely
over the mighty chief of the Starvation Ministry.
Since the above observations were made we
have seen the Standard, which contains a long
article on this subject. It reiterates Mr. SAVAGE'S
statements, but we have already shown that the
chief of them applies to a supposed assertion,
that boys were.turned out of the school by Mr.
SAVAGE, which Mr. ACLAND never made.

Besides Mr. SAVAGE'S letter, the Standard
asserts, on an unnamed authority, that the
school was originally, and now is, endowed with-
out any condition whatever in reference to the
return of Members to Parliament; that Sir R:
PEEL made no communication whatever, either
direct or indirect, to Mr. SAVAGE, or
to any other person, in reference to
the Tamworth school and the Tamworth
memorial; and that Mr. SAVAGE never intbrmed
the boys of the school, or- any other person,
that he had' received any communication to the
above effect from Sir R. PEEL, or by his autho-
rity. Till the Standard can back its own asser-
tions by some named and respectable authority,
we must take leave to say, that they are utterly
valueless. Remembering the tricks which that
Journal has heretofore played with truth, till
it obtained a disgraceful sobriquet, we decline
placing the least confidence in any assertions
which are untouched for, except Sy the Stand-
ard. The letter in the Post does not deny the
existence of conditions, and it is perfectly clear
from that letter that the master has interfered
with at least one boy in relation to the memorial.
The letter is intended, like Mr. SAVAGE'S letter,
to overthrow Mr. ACLAND'S assertions, and by
its 'silence, as well as by its admissions, it con-
firms them, and refutes the Standard.
Our Contemporary refers to our paragraph,
and says it is a striking example of a man find-
ing his falsehood detected. With all deference
to the Standard, we have been guiity of no
falsehood. We copied Mr. ACLAND'S para-
graph, and asked the Tories to contradict it.
They were silent: it made a noise in the world;
several Journals commented on it ; disgrace ac-
cumulated ; and then came Mr. SAVAGE with -a
contradiction of some statements which he had
heard, leaving Mr. ACLAND'S assertions wholly
untouched. We rejoice now to perceive that
they had at least truth enough to stir the gall
of the Premier, who has written to Mr. SA-
VAGE, and to make his foolish flatterers bounce
about after the graceful fashion of a cow stung
by a hornet.
The Standard calls on the humbler classes to
consider seriously what must be the effect to
them if every act of munificence and kindness
of which they are the objects shall come to be
treated as an artifice of corruption, or a step to
tyranny ? We echo that call. The so-styled
acts of munificence and kindness of such as the i
PEBLS, who at the same time tie the hands
of the labourers, and daily flog them in their
bellies, are, in general, artifices of corruption and
steps to tyranny ; when the humbler classes refuse
to be parties to this cheat put upon them, they
will force the tyrants to be just. The hum-
bler classes have now had considerable ex-
perience of the munificence and kindness of
those who provide them wit'n charity schools,
and they have a deweportdibs,trust, which has now
reached moral atn
that t
in-
tended to continue the in a degradingllbaorne dagem
under the pretence or serving them.