The Sun.
London, England, 1840-06-30 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

PRCM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
( From the Globe.)
" The battle must be fought in the Registration
Courts. Regi.:ter ! Register ! Register !" Such was
the exhortation addressed by Sir R. Peel to the Con-
servative party immediately after the passing of the
Reform Bill, when the Tories were lying discomfited
and dispirited, driven out from their strongholds by the
abolition of the close boroughs, in which their strength
mainly consisted, and deprived of which, they saw no
hope of regaining their ascendancy.. They applied
themselves diligently to recover their lost advantages by
first examining the means afforded by the new law to
harrass their successful rivals, and derived hope from
discovering that its details formed a machinery well
adapted to their ends. Contrast this state of things in
the Tory camp with the indifference and parsimony
evinced by the Liberals, and which have given rise to
dissatisfaction, reproach, and disunion, in numerous in-
stances. Enter a Registration Court : observe the pha-
lanx of shrewdToryattorneys,putting forth all their powers
to assail a Liberal vote, or to establish a Tory claim, at-

tended by their numerous well-drilled scouts, who
have served the several 'notices of claims and objec-
tions ; see the adroitness with which they evade, or the
confidence with which they answer, the questions put
to them, according to the quarter whence the questions
proceed ; their knowledge of every weak point in
a Liberal's qualification ; their skill min - harrassing
the claimant, by objections which cannot be sus-
tained, and in defending their partY..,votes when the
qualification admits of doubt, which would terminate
in rejection—all evince the general superiority of
men and means over the Liberal party, brought by the
Tories to the conflict in the Registration Courts.
If, instructed by past and painful experience, the
leaders of the Reformers in the several districts take the
proper preliminary measures for meeting the Tories in
the registration courts at the approaching registration ;
if their Committees assemble without delay, and furnish
from t'aeir respective localities the necessary information,
very important advantages cannot fail of being secured
to th^ Reform party, by the accession of strength, and
by the infusion of renewed confidence, in places where
apathy and niggardliness with respect to the registrations
have inflicted serious injury on the Reform cause, the
effects of which arc seen in the diminished numbers and
decaying zeal of the Liberal electors.
(From the Standard.)
There is but one adequate remedy for the present
enormous evils arising out of the spiritual destitution
of the country. Build and endow churches and schools,
give the adult as well as infant poor time for domestic
and religious habits, unflinchingly carry out territorial
subdivisions, your ancient parochial, along with the
pastoral system, adapting it to the overgrown dis-
tricts, and attending to the " vested rights" of the
poor in common with those of other parties, whether
lay or clerical—all who have an interest in ecclesias-
tical property bequeathed for religious uses—do this,
and this country, with its generous hard-working-, but
much abused, and cruelly neglected population, will yet
see brighter and happier days. The circumstances un-
der which the great question of Church Extension
is now brought forward are remarkable. A concur-
rence of events has placed it on vantage ground.
We trust that no apathy or lukewarmness on the part
of any of those who should promote, will endanger its
success. On former occasions the plea might have been
urged that the Dissenters would throw insurmount-
able difficulties in the way. But this cannot now be al-
leged. Our Dissenting brethren have not so interposed.
Let the Baineses, the Humes, and the Duncombes make
what blaster they please, and assert that they have
the great body of the Protestant Dissenters at their
backs—it is not so. One fact we have in reserve for
these gentlemen, and it is this—in the cities of Lon-
don and Westminster, and the five adjacent boroughs,
the Nonconformists have 408 chapels : of these not
more than 38 have petitioned against a grant for
chureh extension. The signatures to 35 of these
petitions average but 72.
(From the Courier.)
It is not without surprise that we find men, appa-
rently of education, and of a higher rank in society than
those who immediately benefit by the atrocities of the
Irish registration, in opposition to a bill, of which the
sole object is to render the detection of fraud more cer-
tain than it is at present in the courts of the revising
barristers. We have so often explained the chief fea-
tures of this bill, as well as the abuses which have been
procreated by the Irish Reform Act, and sometimes the
proneness of the lower classes of Ireland to disregard
the religious obligations of an oath, that we do not now
feel called upon to dissert on any question of the kind—
if that may be called a question, which question is none.

In the Chronicle we find a sort of Jeremiad that Lord
Howick and Messrs. Peter Ainsworth and Basset voted
for the Bill. They are said to have again shown " the
Orange coating of their lining :"—why, what rubbish
is this to be offered to Englishmen! Not one of those
gentlemen is unconvinced of the necessity which
absolutely exists, if aught be cared for the welfare of
the nation, for the immediate extinction of the facilities
for committing fraud and perjury without the least
chance of detection. They perceive that Lord Stan-
ley's Bill provides thoso means—the great desiderata
of the .Irish election-system, which arc not wanting in
England. The opponents of Lord Stanley first pre-
tend that they wish for an assimilation of the Irish to
the English law of election, and when that is done they
object that the same system which prevails here will be
a wholesale disfranchisement of Ireland. Can anything
be more ridiculously absurd ?