The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-24 00:00:00

BOURSE-PARIS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 21.

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THE WHIG SUPPORT OF THE TORY MINISTERS.—
The cry of the Whig papers on the eve of the elections
was, save the Queen from the Tories. The Tories wish to
coerce her Majesty. The Tories, therefore, according to
the Whig journals, in the doctrines of which we cordially
concur, are the enemies both of the Queen and the peo-
ple. Sir Robert Peel is to be forced into the Govern-
ment by a majority of the aristocracy and the priest-
hood, against the will of her Majesty, to do their plun-
dering work on her long-suffering and patient people.
Under such circumstances we deeply regret to see the
preux chevaliers of her Ministry giving up the fight,
and not only giving her up into the hands of the Tories,
which they perhaps could not prevent, but declaring by
the mouth of Lord John Russell, that they will offer no
vexatious opposition to their schemes to fetter the Queen
and plunder the people. If Lord John had stated this
much a month ago, he would have saved our Whig
Contemporaries and ourselves from some waste of cha-
racter. At least, we had no notion then, when we
saw what was said in the Chronicle and Globe about
the constraint to be put on the Queen by the Tories, that
one of the first acts of Lord John Russell, after ' their
success was known, would be to declare that heskould
not offer any vexatious opposition to their atteMpti,
though they have a majority, to carry on the Govern.-
ment in opposition to the principles of justice and the
wishes of our sincere and truthful Queen.

SCIENCE AND ART.—Lord Stanley-is very ready at using
words, but we have some doubts whether he comprehend
their meaning. At the dinner of the Agricultural So-
ciety, on Thursday, at Liverpool, he twice over called avi-
culture a science, and so spoke of it, that it is impossible
to ascribe the mistake to the reporter. There being no
little confusion on the subject, even in the clear minds of
Lords, it is due to correctness to inform Lord Stanley
that agriculture is not a science but an art. The dis-
tinction is between knowing and doing, science being me-
thodized knowledge of creation, and art the skilful acts
of man's mind and hand. As Lord Stanley said, there is
hardly a science which is not the handmaid of agricul-
ture, but that does not make agriculture 4 science. Bo-
tany, the methodized knowledge of the properties of
plants ; Zoology, the methodized knowledge of the pro-
perties of animals ; Chemistry, the methodized knowledge
of the effects and properties of substances on one another
at insensible distances—all throw light on the operations
of the farmer, and instruct him how to apply hi.s means
and his strength, but they no more convert agriculture
into a science than they convert the manufacture of glass
or steam engines into a science, both of which are im-
proved by, and founded on, knowledge.
The only rational application of the term science to
agriculture, is to its history. The raethodized knowledge
of all that has been done, and is done in the art, may
form science of agricUlture, but to speak of the opera-
tions of drilling and hoeing, of crossing breeds, and laying
drair.ing tiles, however enlightened by a hnowlodge of
the chemical properties of spits, and the laws which
reg%late thp algtli-4144 of water, or the laws of ani-
ma t nature, as a science, is a confusion of all lan-
guage. What resemblance is there between the sci-
ence of astronomy, our methodized knowledge of
the stars—using
acceptation-
and the daily toils of the third part of our population ?is a
Agriculture that word in its largest
noble art, extended and enriched by
science in all ages. Would to God it were exonerated
from the stifling protection of idle
qto its dignitY,uackish and ignorant
Lords, who think they are adding
while,
they are only In this, yt4 in so many other instances,instances, ex