The Sun.
London, England, 1840-11-21 00:00:00

spliuT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
( From the Morning Herald.)
We challenge the Morning Post to produce the
proofs to which it alludes of the Morning Herald ,er
having consented to the principle of the Irish
cihal Reform Bill. Of course eve are not answeiii,ile
any more than our Conteenporarie.s for the opinions of
correspondents. We call for proofs of what the Post
as*erts, from our editorial articles. The Post says
that " the Standard and Herald, in common with the
Titnes and Post, fought for a whole Session the battle
of the 101. against the 5/. franchise in the new trish
corporations, in the well-founded conviction that the
contest was now reduced to that issue, and in the spirit
and language of acquiesce.nee that it should be so held."
We deny the assertion of the Post as far as we: are
concerned. We never did, directly or indirectly, ac-
quiesce in the principle of the Bill for destroying the
Protestant corporations of Ireland, and transferring
their functions to repi•alers and ribandinen. On the
contrary, we rrststcd and denounced ill surrender
cowpromise. We [lever thought that e could render
,ifi•rvwe to Protestant interests by assiot'lig Got crnor
Luiltly to open the gates of D,..rry to the etietnies of the
l'i-utestent hire and Cor,litution.
(From the Times.)
It has suddenly occurred to the Globe newsp.iper,
not only that the Protestantism of England is placed in
imminent jeopardy just now, but that the whole danger
is to be attributed to the Conservative party, who are
alleged to be deeply imbued with Popery. Thus, we
are told by that profound and original authority, that
" Toryism and Popery have a natural affinity with each
other. Toryism is hostile to the tendencies of popular
government, Popery to the tendency of individual judg-
ment. The Oxford tracts and their kindred publica-
tions arc exhibitions of the essential Popery of To-
ryism. * * # Oxford Popery has, already secured
several of the principal Tory organs. Under the cover of
an attack on the Whigs, they are continually inculcating
the principles of Popery, and advocating its customs
„end observances. The Tories have helped and preached
the worst doctrines and usages of Papists. Nay, have
we not heard the Bishop of London himself, in the
debate on subscription to the Thirty-nine Articles,
deny that the Protestant Reformation was founded
on the right of private judgment and free inquiry ? The
task of combating this revived Popery will be left to the
Whigs, who, the Tories may be assured, will be true to
their principles of Protestantism." Now, before we can
do justice to these unparalleled novelties, we feel bound
to say that they make two important concessions to
Toryism which, though doubtless not contemplated by
their ingenious inventor, it would be scandalously un-
grateful on our part to refrain from acknowledging. In
the first place, a rumour has long been propagated in cer-
t sin quarters that the popularity of the Whigs is such
a a to have reduced Toryism to the last degree of dis-
c, -edit and impotence. This mistake we have been
es ideavouring for some time to correct : and now the
very Globe itself has either become painfully conscious
of the advancing ascendancy of the Popish Tories, or
els% in the present instance it has sounded a very un-
met, fling alarm. In the second place, the Whig papers
have long contended that the Tories, in consequence of
k being the high Protestant party, are utterly incompe-
tent to undertake the government of Ireland. In allu-
sten to this, the same papers have often made Sir Robert
Peers " chief difficulty" the subject of party perversion
and party taunts. But they are now getting better in-
formed. They have ascertained at last that Toryism
to Popery," that, in point
has such " a natural affinity
of fact, a Tory Government would be more congenial
with the prevalent superstition of the Irish than even a
Whig one : and in this way the Globe has made itself
. instrumental in removing another absurd prejudice
igainst the accession of a Conservative Ministry.
(From the Morning Chronicle.)
A curious article appeared in yesterday's Times,
ar,aropos to a rumour said to have been afloat in the
C ity, of the formation of a Coalition Ministry. The
T: ernes ascribes the alleged rumour to " feelers" put
for th "by underlings about the Treasury." The
irst C.' feeler" of the sort that we have noticed ap-
I. reared in its own columns some three months ago,
o r there abouts. The notion of coalition can have no
of her th an a Tory origin. It corresponds with the
ch taractet istic unprincipledness of the party. It ea-
rtu rally results from the weariness of procrastinated.
he pe s. Sc asion after session have the emoluments of
.ofh:ct s been promised to the impatient waiters upon
-Proi idence. Every Tory oracle has again and
agetic predicted the coming restoration, only to have
its "ophecy falsified by the event. The Times took
advez tage of the approach of the almanack season to
play is part amongst those political Murphys, and
fixed 1 ~aster as the period when its faction should have
"alma t this time, more or less," of what they so eagerly
t.ovet. But the craven camp followers lack faith.
" The _ hungry; sheep look up and are not fed." In
spite c,f 1 )ositive assurances, they are willing to coin-
ipo and. Better half a loaf than no victual at all. No
cider tha t rumours arise of coalitions ; or that the
:714eg endeavours to allay the eagerness and stay the
, .7""mae ha of the desperate partisans who are willing to
..belteve in such a monstrosity. We called the Times'
.leader curious, on acenunt of the dexterity with which
t
seen is to discountenaoce and denounce coalition, and
) et cot strive to render prominent and impressive what-
-52' .er tvours the notion.

CHRONICLE,—Tne Share Market was steady
to-day, with more business, but no material alteration
in price.
The portion of the new Belgian loan intended for the
London msrket, was brought out to-day.
The aino ant e:' this loan is variously stated ; but as .
1 -ROM TOE EVF.NING PAPERS OF TIIIS DAY.
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w 7 mentioned a few days since, 600,000/. sterling was j
t'u,',.o by the Belgian Bank, and 600,000/. by the Messrs. j
_.
,5,,, , Av a O,IIC great satisfaction in learning that the
Rothschild tor the Paris and London market. Stio..t.i I
Fren:ci , Gc vAerusitllei.tnt
bis likely to comply with the in-
that amount go heel off their hand.- it is likely that A i
second series will ' „, • r it"
,:,,e 5 of • ' r ; by exertiog its influence with Me-
myake its appearance. .1 he charging t Al, to induce htin to offer terms of submission
of interest upon each instalment from the day filed to; ;., on condition of bei ~. •ll '
The . , n„ a owed to retain
the first payment is most unusual, and been ' d to th. 3 u•--1/ •
t; le lour Powers, there is no
objected to on the stockocc,has stron; y
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aange. It, in fact, i ; u,sse
will equally exert their influence to induce the
makes „t so desirable on the part of the subscribers to ( !oub '''
to ac`—r" ' of Egypt. The ~~ /;astern
pa yuv their. proportions in cull on the fir •t . led d S .ti't
that we re it not for the higil value Of named
ay,
• him t" be brought to a pacitic settle-
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minds at' Present,
.it is likely that the object of the con• r Att..t.l ' • 311" would thus . ,
1 circumstances there ;nay not be
tractors ttl secure immediate payment by these stringent al Under these
to the theory respecting the
cooditioni would be accomplished. 'Lucy must, how- , mo"n..ht., ,cession to revert
posseSStOn

balance of power, which we remarked yesterday in the
Journal des Debats, and which a Morning Contem-
porary has farther treated at some length (see our
extracts). But there appears to us something altoge-
ther so whimsical in the assumption that the balance of
power in Europe depends on the power of that old sol-
dier in Egypt, that we cannot forbear saying a word
or two more on the subject. If this is really the case,
the balance of power has got into rather strange com-
pany, and must be owned to be placed in somewhat of
a tremulous situation. What is to become of it,
failing Mehemet Ali and Ibrahim ? Or does the
balance of power reside—not in the person of Mehe-
met Ali—but in the organisation of what M. de
Came, in the Revue des Deu.v'Mondes, calls " the
germ of a power on the Nile and the Euphrates, raising
itself like a barrier between the two halves of the
gigantic empire of England." Is it the raising of
such a barrier against England that is imagined the
essential point ?—and is it the fact that England has
occasion to pass through these regions to her Eastern
possessions, that at once suggests as the proper aim of
French policy to bar her passage ! This were in-
deed a proper dog-in-the-manger policy for a great
nation—holding forth no prospect of advantage to
France, but hindrance to England ! When will na-
tions learn that mere obstruction to others is no
promising or permissible object of policy—that to
seek to impede others in their route does not advance
themselves—and that, alter all, the attempt is of that
aature which must be unsuccessful, as the direction im-
pressed on national efforts by positive interests is
stronger, and more continuous, than the mere negative
promptings of jealousy. If nations would but devote
to real pursuits of their own all the efforts they waste in
seeking to impede those of others, the " balance of
power" would, in the end, be better preserved amongst
them—that is to say, all who had any power would de-
velope it without violence, and therefore without injury,
to the progress of others.
(From the Standard.)
A distinguished artillery officer, whose writings on
topics connected with his profession have excited de-
served attention, has addressed to us the following valu-
able suggestion, the adoption of which would, we have
little doubt, prevent many serious railroad collisions.
Nothing can be simpler or easier in practice than the
sort of telegraphic communication recommended by our
correspondent ;
ROCKET AND BLUE-LIGHT SIGNALS FOR

RAILROADS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE " STANDARD."

Sir,—Will you permit me, through the medium of the
Standard, to suggest to directors of railroads the use of
rockets and pyrotechnical blue-lights, as means of esta-
bishing a code of signals on the various lines ?
Thus, if a train be delayed at night when en route, either
from accident to the train, from the road being impass-
able from drifted snow, or from the rail being defective—
if a blue light were to be ignited by one of the guards, its
blaze of light would be a beacon to approaching trains,
even in a fog, and be seen more distinctly and at a far
greater distance than the coloured lamps now in use. Dis-
abled or retarded trains could throw up any preconcerted
number of rockets to telegraph to the destined station the
cause of detention and the nature of the assistance required.

For this purpose all trains should carry with them. boxes
of blue lights and rockets, up and down-trains being distin-
guished by rockets having different coloured stars. Even
in the day-time bang-rockets might be used as signals.
Indeed, by means of rockets a telegraph might be esta-
blished from one end of a line to the. other, which would
convey information in a few minutes, both by day and night,
even from London to Uvrpool. ÜBIQUE.
(From the Courier.)
The day was, when the Scotsman pointed with pride
and exultation to his " Church" as the noblest instru-
ment in sustaining Scotland's name among the nations,
and boasted of her excellence, as acknowledged by all
the world. Over the brightness of that day there has
come a heavy and a darkening cloud, ever since the reign
of Non-intrusion commenced ; and the Kirk, from being,
as she was under her once pious and humble Ministers,
the fountain of all that was good and orderly, loyal and
peaceable in the land, is becoming, under the present
race of " agitators," the nursery of a spiritual pride and
faaaticsm which are truly intolerable, lording it over
the consciences of men, and, under the mask of re-
storing " the Headship of Christ," and " the liberties of
his redeemed people," to the place from which, forsooth,
the " moderate" councils of other days had impiously
expelled them—disturbing alike the civil and religious
institutions of the empire, and threatening, if not time-
ously checked, to overwhelm them in one common
ruin. We have said nothing of the spectacle, now every
day to be seen in Scotland, of clergymen deserting the
flecks, which they have solemnly sworn to Iced ; wan-
dering over the country ; and, under the most awful
forms of religion itself, striving to tear asunder the ties
of affection that have for nearly half a century knit to- i
gether the pastors and people of other parishes, because
they bend not their necks under a yoke which the law of
the' land has declared to be illegal ; and which the
very leader of tie " agitators" has said that it must be
abolished! In this unhallowed work the instruments of
the 'General Assembly—or rather its" tyrant majority"—
may be proving hut too successful ; for what worth or
virtue lives there, that under such incessant attacks,
commenced and carried on in the name of religion, by-
the very fathers of th, Church of Scotland, can be ex.
peered to siUrvive ? ilappi!y the (lay of deliverance
from such outrages or) .11 that is decent, orrier!, air ,1
Christian, ehich a pu in.,11,, end hitherto peaceable
' district of the conotry is no:e witnessing, cannot be far
diAaflt, The voice of ;!ii indignant public utast cad
loudly for the law in that corner of the empire being
respected ; the decrees of the Judges honoured : and
the men who obey them, shielded from a persecution,
not the less odious, that it is under the fanatical pre-
text of maintaining " Christ's Crown and Kingdom ;"
and Parliament, when it meets again, will be no longer
indifferent to what is now going on in Scotland.