The Sun.
London, England, 1840-06-02 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAT.
(Frem the Morning Post.)
We believe that the hatred of the Irish millions to the
Tories of Great Britain—that is, to the great majority of
the nobility, sentry, clergy, and yeomen of Great Britain,
reached its limax during the Normanhy government of
Ireland. British gullibility and weakness were then at
their height, and Irish Rornanirm revelled and exulted in
the wildest intoxication of mingled batted and scorn. It
exhibited in public precession a Vice-Regal zany as the re-
presentative of the Majesty of once triumphant England,
and one wild shout of derisive laughter and mock adulation
shook the land, from the rocky shores of Kerry to the de-
solate mountain passes of Donegal. But their exultation
then got the better of their cunning. They made too
much use of their fool, and the monstrosity became appa.
rent. Since then they have found more caution and coin- I
mon sense in the management of Irish affairs, and they I
have seen the power and influence of the Tory party stea-
dily advancing. Their hatred is in consequence giving way
to respect, and at this day the Romanist political power in
Ireland is not within ten per cent. of what it was at the
death of William the Fourth.
(From the Times.)
Is it not a notorious fact that the poorest set of livings
throughout the kingdom, the livings of which the incum-
bents are the most oppressed, and their houses in the most
dilapidated state, arc the livings dependent on cathedrals,
of which the great tithes, and not infrequently some of
the terra firma also, have been swallowed up by lazy pre-
bendaries and residentiaries? Can anything be more just
than to restore a portion gradually, and not in a revolu-
tionary spirit, to the toiling vicars? The only difficulty
we have on this head is on the subject of patronage. With
whom should it rest ? The Bill of the Commissioners
gives it to the Bishops, and these have so greatly abused
that trust in times past in favour of their own undeserving
relations, that we dread an increase of their power in this
respect. Perhaps a distribution of some of the cathedral
livings among the colleges of our two Universities would
be useful ; and be it observed that the new laws with
respect to pluralities and residence will operate as a great
impediment to the future accumulation of preferment in
one man.

(From the Morning Advertiser.)
The slave question is not one of creed or country, but of
general man ; and those who unite not in the effort to ex-
tinguish it, whatever their profession of faith, or whatever
the place of their birth, are scarcely less traitors to hu-
manity than those who actually participate in the reeking
spoils of the infamous traffic. For the same reason we
consider the cause of the suffering African would be less
effectually promoted by the spirit of missionary zeal than
by the establishment of well-regulated commercial rela-
tions. We are not inseusible to the vast good which
Christian missionaries have achieved in various parts of
the world, but we know also that those calling them-
selves Christians have perpetrated enormities so horrify-
ing, even to the savage, that he has rejected the chance
of Heaven itself rather than avail himself of it in con-
junction with parties capable of committing such monstrous
crimes as he had witnessed in those professing a desire for
his temporal improvement and eternal salvation. Com-
mercial intercourse, which appeals at once to palpable
interests, is the most effective introduction to Christian►ty
and civilization. _

(From the Morning Chronicle.)
The Morning Post of yesterday has a resume of the
arguments in favour of Corn-laws, not very remarkable for
its logic, but worthy of notice from its resting upon two
.facts, which are very material to the question. One is,
that " in other countries, owing to the extent of sui face,
the superiority of climate, the lightness of taxation, the
lowness of rents, and specially the poor and wretched
manner in which the labourers live" (worse than
on the Duke of Buckingham's estate ?) " corn can
be raised much cheaper than it can in England."
The other fact built upon by our Contemporary is,
that many " family settlements and other trusteeships
have been entered into, and become legally bincEng,
which have reference to such a valiv of land in this
country as it can possess only through the continuance
of agriculture," i. c. of monopoly. That is to say, in
plain English, certain needy aristocrats have mortgaged
the tax upon the people's bread, for the benefit of the junior
branches of their families, or of others for whom they
wished to provide. They have granted "settlements,"
which imply a bread tax rate of rent, and so the labourer
is bound to make good their bankruptcy out of his dear
and scanty loaf. - Our contemporary has unwittingly given
the rationale of the system, and of the party for whose sake
it is supported.

(From the Morning Herald.)
According to the preient resolutions of the s I my
/. • Coun-
cil Committee no school can partake of any portionichc n.
of thei
Parliamentary grants which will not submit sot i
spection, and, consequently, the great rasjor2sls ofof thetl
; R
schools of the National Society, and all
the
sei
of Par.
kingdom, are ipsofacto excluded from any portionthat they
liamentary assistance. It is of no
consequence
are willing to submit their pecuniarytaY
accounts to this
fl admit the Privy
tyrannical audit, unless they will a
Council Inspectors into the tchonl.e
and thus degrade the
autbority.of the bishops, the
mittees and inspectors—they clergy,ar and their own corn.
:deciared absolutely in.
capable of . partaking of ono farthing of the public bounty i

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We say, that a more tyrananical and crbitrary pcwer wA 9
never attempted to be introduced into England, sad that
if such a wedge can be forced into the constitutiou by the
Privy Council, it is quite sufficient to split up the union
between Church and StaLc.