The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-27 00:00:00

PUBLIC OPINION.

A document recently issued at Birmingham by an As-
sociation for promoting the general welfare of their fel-
low-countrymen, forms the subject of a leading article
in the Times, in the course of which our Contemporary
observes :—" Our own domestic circulation has no doubt
been greatly reduced by the failure of many joint-
stock banks, and the due caution of others, more parti-
cularly of the Bank of England, imposing a restraint on
their issues. Our home means of purchase are, there-
fore, no doubt greatly diminished. How are such evils
to be abated ? Certainly by the endeavours of very
different politicians from the authors of the Birmingham
address, and the members of the Association ; but in the
first place by Christian charity, and above all by humage
laws for the relief and support of those who, are in no
way the authors of the sufferings under which they la-
bour. We have bestowed this discussion on the address,
because we see, though the design is kept out of the full
glare of day, that it yet aims at a compulsory paper cir-
culation, with which we are convinced there can never
either be security or comfort."
The Morning Chronicle reverts to the question of
Puseyism in the following terms :—" The Puseyites, it
seems, feel themselves strong enough to think of carry-
ing a contested election for the Professorship of Poetry.
They are determined to show that they can write prose
and worse' in defence of their Papistical principles. Of
course, as the county candidate said to his wife, every
thing comes out at an election ;' and sundry extraordi-
nary fraternizations with Rome—auricular confession
and else—have already transpired. We make no com-
ment, at present, on the theology, or the jesuitry, of these
revelations. There they are, in the bosom of the Church;
that is all."—And this is the very fault we find with the
Puseyites ; that holding Papistical tenets, they still stick
to Protestant temporalities. We quarrel not with their
opinions ; freedom of thought is the right of all ,• but
we do object to their continuing within the pale of the
orthodox Church establishment, when they are doing all
they can to further the interests of the rival Church. We
have no notion of men fighting under false colours.
The Herald thus alludes to Mr. O'Connell's late bear-
ing at the Viceroy's levee in Dublin Castle. There is a
great deal of absurd exaggeration—for party purposes,
of course—in our Contemporary's statement:—" Through
the person4f Earl de Grey, Mr. Daniel O'Connell, as
Lord Mayor of Dublin, has dared to offer a token of dis-
respect to the Sovereign of the United Kingdom. In pre-
senting himself in an offensive manner to the Lord Lieu-
tenant of Ireland at his Excellency's late levee,he insulted
Queen Victoria, and, through her Majesty, every one of
her subjects. The fact is notorious; it was witnessed by a
larger assemblage of all classes of Irishmen than has for
ten ears been gathered round any Irish Viceroy. It is
coni.,...ssed and admitted by the offender ; nay, more, an
apology has been tendered at the hands of a Corpora-
tion menial for the outrage on decency, for the disrespect
to the Queen's deputy in Ireland, and for the deliberate
insult to the Sovereign herself. To be sure there is an
excuse--but such an excuse I Mr. Daniel O'Connell
misconducted himself at the levee because he personally
knew no better, and because the Corporation Marshal
had not drilled good manners into him for the nonce.
Such is the apology which is tendered by the Lord
Mayor of the metropolitan city of Ireland for an offence
which the meanest Irish bogtrotter would not, un-
prompted by motives, have committed."
The Derby Reporter, alluding to the emigration ques-
tion, makes the following remarks :—" Depopulating
emigration must bear our labourers by hundreds of
thousands to lands where labourers are few. But how
often is the experiment to be repeated? Years will again
swell our numbers to their present extent—are they

again to be driven across the Atlantic by the scourges
of monopolies which will not let them live a t home ?"
The Plymouth Journal observes.—" NV hat is the pre-
sent position of this country in reference to the ele-
ments of its prosperity—its commerce and manufac-
tures ? By a false system of Protection and Mono-
poly, to the principle and injurious effects of which
we cannot now specifically advert, the price of bread
and of many other necessary and desirable commodities
which affect the happiness, nay even support the exist-
ence of the homes of England, is raised to the consumer
for the supposed benefit of particular interests. It is
easy to see that the pressure of this shameful taxation
falls with severest weight on the humbler and more
numerous classes."

We extract the following from the Doncaster Gazette
—" The privation, destitution, and suffering which
are now severely experienced in the manufacturing
districts, are, it is feared, likely to be considerably in-
creased during the prevalence of the appreaching
winter, especially if it prove, as is by no means a
matter of improbability, one of great severity. It is
indeed to be apprehended that countless numbers of ope-
ratives, whO have large families, will, under these cir-
cumstances, be starved to death, or reduced to such a
deplorable condition as to be carried off by disease,
arising from the want of sufficient food."