The Sun.
London, England, 1847-08-20 00:00:00

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LON )')N, FRIDAY, AUGUST 20, 1847.

Among so many revelations of horror and so many
causes of heart-burning--while the circumstances of
bloodshed connected with the duel between M.BEAU-
VALLON and M. DI:JARRIER, and those of the fatal
rencontre between Lieutenant MuNew and Colonel
FAWCETT are being simultaneously revived in the
Criminal Courts of London and Paris—while the
imagination is revolted at the details of brutality
elicited day after day in the witness-box of the Old
Bailey, or appalled by the intelligence of the murder
of the daughter of Marshal SEBASTIANI, in a bed-
chamber of her own hotel at the French metropolis—
while we are stunned in one direction by the broils and
recriminations of the electioneering antagonists, and
in another filled with abhorrence by the disclosures
of many infamous occurrences—it is pleasant to con-
sider the generous and ennobling sentiments just
uttered by Sir ROBERT PEEL to the more reflective
portion of his Tamworth constituents. After the
more barren topics of political controversy and party
contention, it is agreeable to examine the speech de-
livered by the ex-Prime Minister upon the possible
extension of happiness among our fellow-creatures by
the further diffusion of the knowledge of Christianity.
In the abstract, there is nothing for which we have
imbibed a greater loathing than those meetings of
mock-philanthropists, in which there is a pretence of
benevolence can,
a pretence only. The counterfeits of
can, however, he very readily detected.
They can be detected as easily as though the
proposition
were to send a supply
of pocket handkerchiefs to
the Ashantees, instead of disseminating the and ignorant fellow-
Scrip-
tures among our more indigent
countrymen. For ourselves we would as lief follow the
Godly example of DANIEL QUILP, by frequenting Little
Bethel, or emulate TONY WELLER, by attending the
Brick-lane Branch of the Ebenezer Temperance As-
sociation, as we would think of becoming subscribers
at the vast majority of the meetings convened for the
distribution of books and brochures for the regenera-
tion of the poorer classes. And our repugnance
arises principally from a conviction that there is a
great deal more of relig ion in a pound of good beef,
or a basket of sound potatoes—when the question
is
the aid of the humbler members of the commu-
nity—than in a stereotyped tract or a sermon printed
upon vellum.
Sir ROBERT is, however,is a privileged supporter of
Bible associations.
H
Parliamentary. and Ministe-
rial career is the guarantee
of his sincerity He is
none of your agricultural SAINT
BERNARDS, who
label their electioneering banners like
of ointment, with e
these many boxes
friend ."' 50.A.„D.50,
The ex-Premier, instead ee el:: bo ir snman'gs
his virtues in sarcenet, has aspired to the moreamode
si
glory of bettering the condition of the labouring
classes, by the removal of unjust imposts. In-
stead of distinguishing himself as " Good Sir
ROBERT, the poor man's friend," by becoming a
genteel purveyor of homilies to the million, he has
contented himself with such obscurer labours as that
of destroying a system whereby the more opulent
divisions of society were protected, and the more
indigent were burdened with the incubus of indirect
taxation. Hence it is that Sir ROBERT PEEL is a
sort of privileged advocate for the more intellectual
and spiritual kinds of benevolence; hence it is
that his name is in itself a ouarantee for the
integrity of the motives of
such descriptions of typo-
graphical philanthropy,
Those who have been l
Right Hon. Baronet is a iPtely persisting that the
-Papists—a sort of JesuitTh in tihse gused emissary of the
National Family—will
i
'The distressed at the decisiverefutation
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theese Ta s
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-tions contained in his speech as chairman .wa/th Bible Society. A declaration
#dox Protestantism could not be desiredof by rtehenrmthons; estrestieust. , • onists of Dr. Pusev. The whole
:amt.: 'eg e `4 atic with the Thirty-nine Ahritsicles.
,-- S. ;flit 7RT'ilot only repudiates Popery b
i tandiii4-&e chairman at the annual asysembratg-
Aof the Tarim vrth Bible Society, but he in-
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