The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-03 00:00:00

MORNING EDITIoN.

THE BUNTINGITE WESLE VANS
T►he true characer of the Bunting iie Wesleyans---
the disciples of the 117 atehman school—is admirably
illus rated in their conduct on the Maynooth grant, a
communication respecting which appears in our liar-
borough news.
When the co-operation of these gentry is asked, for
the promotion of any great measure of religious liberty
they retwe their aid—" It is political !!" When mea
more consc entious than themselves are required, under
the penalty of fine and imprisonment, to contribute to
a system they deem unscriptura►, these men, though
themselves profes,ing to differ from the same system,
will do nothing to remove the grievance„ Again theY
say—" It is political."

We can see nothing but gross hypocrisy-, in these Pre'
tences. If these mea really believe thenueiven
empted, by their religion from the great work of PO.
meting liberty, with all its attendant blesSinis—p-if the/
can bring their minds to think that the great:and glg.
rious principles of the New Testament, are, limited to
private matters, and arc not to be applied to public
they can feel justified in leaving the oppeessede
the burdened, the plundered—to be crushed beneath
the galling yoke—let them retire to the obscurity for
which only they are fitted—and in which, we regret to
say, they will not be alone. But when we see OOP
alter this ado about refraining from politics, lendia
their active aid to measures equally political, we kite°
not how sufficiently to express our disgust at their coo'
duct.
When a strong attempt was male to darasge the
Ministry—and not only the Ministry, but the:advocates
of Liberal principles generally, by opposing And rev'
dcring obnoxious the Government plan of educatioat
these Watchmanite Wesle3als were in the veil
thickest of the frt.y, and we had occasion t,) exposer
more than once, the unfairness of their proceedings.
So, now the bigots in Parliament are opposing the
Maynooth grant, for political purposes, these gentry et.
again actively at work—not out of love to the voluntati
inciple, but because the endowment is given to another
sect than their own. If it be asked, " Why, then, tl°
they support. the Establishment ?".—we reply, " fie'
cause they hope one day to share in its spells. 14
there no Popery within its walls at which they migh',
take alarm ? There is—but we have furnished a ker
to their conduct, Ebenezer Elliott justly called their
L'initZieneo—;.
" The hundred Popes of Engiand3s jestaty j"
and they had better reform themselves before the%
meddle with Maynooth,—Leicester Mersioy.

HOW TO GOVERN THE MASSES'
(Prom the Noncoqbernist.)
A short way and a vigorous one, of dealing evict
famished millions, is that in fashion at St. Stephen°'
Drive them from every common hi the kingdom by f,a°4
closure Acts—have they not the roads ? Worry
with ganic-lattl--are the sports of gentlemen tO °-
abandoned ? Wring from them half their scanty wages
by ta*es tipnti their articles of food and clothing-4W!
them about on all sites by restrictions, that they 1081
carry their 1 ibour and their skill to the lowest markets
—prevent them from buying bread at any but
dearest. When, by such means, they are deprived
all power to stave off want, break up their homes!
shut them up in workhouses—separate husband au;
wife, children and parents—set over them lew.breu'
domineering masters—pay chaplains to preach Christi°
patience to them—and, if nature rebels, off with the!,
to blackholes, aed starve them into submission. This
the approved method of governing " the masses
If there be justice in Heaven, as assuredly there ir:
although heattless rulers may forget it ; if there be
God above us, whose prerogative it is to right the or
pressed, and judge thoie who " grind the face of il°
poor," these things cannot last. The abettors of tbi°
fearful tyranny—Whig, Tory, or Radical—aristoersti
mercantile, or trading—may hope in vain to escape
tribution. The storm is brewing. Thickening lure
clouds skirt the horizon. Commerce declines. TO°
cannot regain its wonted elasticity. Sources of ru'
perity are, one after another, drying up to appear
other lands. All things betoken the slow, but certaio
approach of a universal smash.
But this New Poor-law— have not all partic6
spoken well of it ?Do not all agree—all, who ha/
not sinister designs to answer—that it works well
Yes! all but " the masses"—considerably above Or
half of the nation. Were the lion the painter, 1:
strangely different picture would be drawn. Whili
then ! Are the poor "to eat up," in the language
Lord Brougham, " their Lordships' estates?" Litt
need, we think, to ask that question, would the'
Lordships forbear to prey upon the estates of the pot.
Must not idleness be discouraged, must not real pro;
verty be discriminated by a searching test ? Win
else is proposed—what other object is answered by tui
all-applauded Bill? We answer with another qug.rt
Is it not a right principle that all men should prom'
honestly for their own? Wall in, now. some doze:,
men, and coop them up within a paddock, a few yard
square. Tell them to get their living by their labour'',
preach to them that our mother earth is bountiful, a,
the same moment that you take from them their best
tools. Bid them give you half rheir produce, and doe e
not the principle, which is intrinsically good, Wulf?
totally inapplicable ? a practical tyrannizing falsehood,
It makes all the difference, whether contentment r
urged as a duty before or after dinner.
There is another mode of governing " masses," agr
so much in vogue 'tis true, but one which the sonufc
our Legislators adopt, the better for all parties. The
soul of it is, that men nave rights, as well as propel
Landowners and lundholdera little dream of this. 11:1
heavy burdens, their own despotic tendencies createp;
they have mainly cast upon the back of poverty. 11
swell their own enormous incomes, labour is forbiddeif
to sell its fruits at this market, hunger to satisfy itsl
at that. Give back the poor their rights, rights rude't,
snatched from them at the point of the bayonet, osi,
upon them oily their equitable proportion of tixetiou;
give their industru " a fair stage and no favour ;" suire
them to buy and sell as they list without State•ititef
meddling, and when this is done, praise the new Poor-lu"'
it you will, as a marvellous statesman-like measure'
The poor will object to it no longer.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. a
SIR—If I mistake not, your columns have advec•ltel
•the exclusion of the B:shops from the House of Ler"
Perhaps not so frequently as if there had appeared sett
chance of that change being effected ; for, it is 010,1
discouraging when there is no prospect of any attest
being paid to that which one upholds and recommenr";
I am somewhat surprised, Sir, that none of au,
lawyers have ever noit ttel out a simple, and a perfecti9l
legal course, whereby, as the Bishops die cif, theic
succe,sors might be prevented ent-ring the klousi
of Lords ; and so, by degrees, would the number 1(11
parliamentary B.stiops ceerease, until no more W0t1"
be ie t.
•
The Bishops sit in Parliament, not in virtue of thr`i
bishoprics, but of their baronies. Those baronies lir,
vest the Bishops with their temporalities ; and it i;
quite optional with the Crown either to grant the
temporalities or to withhold them. Let the experinteni
be tried on the appointment of the now vacant see 0„
Worcester, and the question would be brought to
issue at once. When the new Bishop shall make the
accustomed application for the t :mporalities held by 131'
predecessor, and for the accumulation since his de-
cease, let the new Bishop be told that the temporal]
ties, &c., have been handed over to the Consolidated
Fund, for the augmentation of the public revenue, od
that the like is intended to be done hereafter as the
other bishoprics fall vacant. The election of a Bish°Pf
is wholly a matter of grace and favour on the part °I
the Crown, for there is no obliption upon the part °
the Sovereign to issue a conge defire to the Chapter,
The adored Protestant Queen Bess used to increr'S"
her revenue by keeping bishoprics vacant several yer'ri;
and what Elizabeth did could not be condemned by oel
true Church of Englandists of the present day.
It is scarcely possible to conceive any act which
would be half so popular as that which I have eecoov
mended. It would immortalize the name of the St"-
vereign who should first try it, as well as strengthen'
beyond the power of caleulatioe, the Administratioo
who should recommend and uphold it. That our youog
and excellent Queen nay he the Sovereign who shall
reap the full quantum of applause which ail be inse'
parable Irons the course above recommended, is the
ardent wish of one of her most loyal subjects, Who 13°
the honour to subscribe himself, Mr. Editor,
Your very obedient servant,
London, April 30, 1841. BRITANNICVS.