The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-12 00:00:00

TO SIR JAMES GRAHAM, BART. r SIR ROBERT PEEL AND THE

with Iziying before ,your:; hcstrt,rs your own opinions on
the subject a • ttliF pbotAcAllPl+"Corn• I 'fill& that
you are guilty in it of one of the most extraordinary
perversions of Scripture on record; It is true that you
only circulate it, as you say, second-hand, but that is no
excuse for you. It is at least to be expected that you,
who set tip for a " master in Israel," should have a full
acquaintance with Scripture, and " not blindly follow a
blind guide" into the slough of deception, if not of
falsehood. But who is this Gamaliel, at 'whose feet you
sit in such humble teachableness of disposition to im-
bibe Scriptural lessons in favoUr of monopoly for the
landoWners and starvation for the people ? Verily I
could but smile when I discovered it to be that "emi-
nent and dignified divine," as you most facetiously call
him, the arch-apostate of discord from Ireland, the
eulogist of Jezebel, the Rev.
Hugh M'Neile.
will be kind, to you, Sir .Tines, and give you a hint
not in future to pin your faith on the sleeve of such a
spiritual Will-o'-tle-Wisp as this. I do not deny that
the gentleman in question has words tit will. No ! no ! he
has plenty of talk at his command;
but then too Often it
is all talk and only talk with him. He is at best but a
kind of slap-dash dealer in theology, noisy as a babbling
brook in summer, and-quite as shallow. And yet you,
forsooth, speak of him as " an eminent and dignified di-
vine." If notoriety constitutes eminence, then, indeed,
it must be conceded that Mr. M'Neile is not only eminent,
but-pre-eminent, and not only that, but pre-eminently
pre-eminent also amongst the advocates of intolerance
and the champions of bigotry. But as to the second epi-
thet, ' which you bestow upon him, those who
know him, will not only smile, but laugh outright, atsuch
an astounding misapplication of language, while those to
whom he is a stranger will be exceedingly amused when I
tell them that this dignified divine, as you are pleased to
• style him, is as wild, dashing, and, to use his own coun-
try's phrase, " rollicking" looking an Irishman as has
ever been imported into this country either by sailing
ve.tsel or steam-boat. Auspice Teucro:from such a master
you borrow the errors which you wilfully or ignorantly,
I suspect the former, attempt to palm upon the public.
But I now proceed to consider this perversion of Scrip-
ture. In laying it before your hearers you had the
unblushing audacity to assure them that it was taken
" from that sacred fountain which contained les-
sons of pure knowledge." Yes, sir, the divine word
does contain lessons of pure knowledge, but what -must
we say of the spirit of him who, to subserve base and
secular and worldly objects, presumes to pollute and de-
file that purity, by mixing up with it his own impure mis-
readings and misinterpretations. But you shall be con-
victed out of your own mouth. Here are your words,
as taken from the reports of the Tory papers :
" They would remember that the most ancient com-
mercial city was the city of Tyre, described in Holy Writ
as sitting like a queen upon the waters, as the crown-
ing city, whose merchants are princes, 'whose traffickers
are the honourable of the earth,' who was the mistress
of the world, enriched by t l (ships of Ophir, and dealing
in the dyed garments o; Rozrah. Yet a little but striking
incident is related with is spect to this city. She was in
the neighbourhood of a poor and apparently powerless
kingdom, that of Judea. A quarrel arose between.them,
and the inhabitants of Tyre were obliged to send an
Ambassador and sue for peace at the hands of the King
of Judea, and the reason assigned is, that their coun-
try was nourished by the King's country.'—(Hear, hear.)
They did not grow their own corn.—(Hear, hear.)"

Now, Sir, he who runs may read," and at once see
through the gross delusion which you have here at-
tempted. How stands the case ? Yon, first of all, give
a description of what, according to the Prophets, Tyre
was in her days of magnificence and palmy glory, but,
ven in that description, showing your ignorance of
Scripture, by dragging into your picture of " the city of
waters" part (If one of the most splendid predictions of
the coming of the Messiah. But never mind that now.
I am not going to lose sight of your grand fallacy, by
trifling with nice criticism. You give us, I say, an ac-
count of what 'Tyre was in the days of the Prophets,
who wrote six, seven, and eight hundred years before
Christ, and then jump to conclusions in favour of
the Corn-laws from a casual mention of a feud
between her inhabitants and Herod, in the forty-
fourth year of the Christian era. Never was
there a grosser imposition essayed upon the human un-
derstanding than this. The Tyre of the first period
spoken of was the mistress of the seas. Her navies,
which at once extended her power and ministered to
the wealth and luxury of her inhabitants, penetrated to
every accessible region of the then known world. She
had, too, her land traffic with the country behind her,
whence she could draw supplies of corn; while Africa,
Sicily, and Sardinia, then known as " the granaries of
the world," were open to her ships, us her sails whitened
every sea, and her keels pressed every shore. But she
was not such in the second epoch, in which you drag
her forward as if still the same Tyre in the days 'Of
Herod. A long and melancholy interval had elapsed.
Ages, pregnant with great and sail events, had rolled
between. Her glory had departed from her ; her com-
merce had been turned into other channels. Time and
the sword had been at work with her. The Babylonian
and the Macedonian had pressed heavily upon her. Old
Tyre had been overwhelmed by the conquering arms of
Nebuchadnezzar. New Tyre had only sprung up to
undergo the same fate before the matchless power of
Alexander the Great. So that only the name of her
remained, although still clung to, it may be, with
luid affection, by those who, in the time of Herod,
inhabited the ruins of what now was but the
shadow and ghost of what once was Tyre, but which
for ages had been decaying, and was still decay-
ing., into the fulfilment of the prediction which
spoke of a time to come, when she should be " as the
top of a rock, a place to spread nets upon"—and nothing
more—an almost deserted spot in a remote corner of the
mighty and universal empire of Rome, while Herod him-
self, whose feud with her you weave into your sophistry,
was but a mock Prince, a phantom king, tolerated, from
motives of policy, by the mistress of the world. And
now, Sir, let me ask you, whether you are not utterly
ashamed of the manner in which you stated your argu-
ment to the Dorchester electors ? In your premises you
set before them Tyre when Queen of the Seas, when
every land was bridged, if I may so say, to her by her
navy, and the productions of every country were within
her reach and her command. In your conclusion, you
speak of Tyre; ruined, desolate, shorn of her commerce
and her greatness, with a few inhabitants on a barren
rock, who, without any corn-growing land of their own,
were compelled to buy food from their neighbours, and
then you triumphantly exclaim," They were at the mercy
of those neighbours, because they did not grow their own
corn." No, Sir, that was not the reason ; at all events,
not the only reason. They did not grow their own corn
in the days of the Prophets, but their commerce opened
the world to them. If the crops failed in one region of
the earth, they could supply
themselves from another. If
one country were hostile to them ; they could approach
the markets of another. But this state of things had
not eiadured., and they were now dependent upon Herod
and his people for corn, because they had lost their trade
and commerce. The. inhabitants of Tyre, from lording
it over the world and dictating from their ships to all
nations, had shrunk into the dwellers upon a barren
rock,. with no means of sustenance, but what their fisher-
men's nets supplied them with, with no fertile land to
cultivate for their own support. And vet on this founda-
tion you dare to build an argument in favour of your
food-monopoly, and rake up an anology between this
Englandonistress of the ocean, and with capabilities, if
free and fair scope were given to them, for trading with
all the world and for importing, food from every corner of
the globe. For shame, for shame, and you a would-be
statesman ! And was it in wilfulness or ignorance, was
it in your own blindness or in a contempt for the intellect
of your hearers, that you thus exposed yourself at Dor-
chester ? In either case you are alike inexcusable and
alike deserve to be held up to public scorn and ridicule.
For to-day, farewell. To-morrow or next day, I
shall have another word or two to say you.
A CLERGYMAN OF THE CHURCH OF
. ENGLAND.

August 10, 1841.

During her Majesty's and the Prince's brief stay
at Pansaiiger, two occasions are said to have happened
when the Royal
.pair surprised the rustics by appearing
among them. These trivial occurrences we are aware
are in themselves but of little importance ; but, as they
are calculated to show the real kindness and unostenta-
tious habits of the Queen and her illustrious Consort, we
give them. Her Majesty is, as our readers may be aware
perhaps, habitually an early riser. During her stay at
Pansanger she was abroad as early as seven o'clock, in
company with Prince .Albert. On one of these morning
excursions she was desirous of seeing a charming little
lodge situate in a dell on the left as you pass through the
Park from Hertingfordbury. The rustic party were quite
unprepared for so distinguished an honour, and accord-
ingly the gamekeeper addressed them at first with less
homage than he would have paid to his Sovereign. He
was fortunate enough to discover his error in time, and
ironic reparation for his mistake by showing his illus-
trious visitors his different specimens of game, many of
them exceedingly beautiful and of uncommon kinds, mid
with which they seemed exceedingly pleased. The affec-
tion the royal pair discovered towards each other not a
little, we believe, astonished the rustic. He appears never
to have suspected Queens and Princes of such 'vulgar
sympathies as those which arc experienced by the com-
mon herd. How was his wonder raised at hearing her
Majesty address the Prince as "my dear." It would have
comported more, no doubt, with his notions of regal eti,
quette for her Majesty to have addressed him as " Your
Royal Highness Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg, &c. &c.
&;e." but no such thing was. the case. Here is a reve-
lation for married folks. Don't be frightened of being
thought vulgar through cherishing those natural and in-
teresting emotions which husbands and wives ought ever
to feel towards one another, for your Queen thinks it not
unbecoming her to display them.—On another occasion
the Prince, who was pas:ing through a gate at Hertino._
fordbury, was recognised by a lad. lis Royal Highess,
serving the boy's amazement, accosted him, " Well, my
m an, yon don't know me." " y-es, I do," replied the urchin,
" You are Prince Albert." The Prince smiled, alga ashed
him how he knew. " Bocause," Noi,a the boy, by
no
means. disconcerted, oof the hair you have got there,"
and with this he drew his iingt.rs neross his upper lip.
These are circumstances trifling in themselves, •yyv
aware, and only &rill their inirek, hymn the per-
sons with whom we associate the/in " Fame ationfor-
tuna pares stint ; qui magnus imperio prcediti iu execiso
gmet'd by "o g(!(').(1,
tetateat agunt, cumin meta cuncti mortales novere." We
do not se:: a Queen every day, and neither is the British
interest. Such curiosity is laudable..
throne alwayo
the ti'n4t.4`llo"l fIY so '4 .4,1 y as srie who presides
at it ivho feel no admiratiOn for the
over the British 114thqh . Every little incident relating
to
-136' this stoicism far
parts of possesses
our common natutei
finest
settripl
from us. —Herts Wormer.,